Bruno Buchberger

Bruno Buchberger ( born October 22, 1942 in Innsbruck) is an Austrian mathematician.

Life

He attended the Academic Gymnasium Innsbruck and received his PhD in 1966 with Wolfgang Gröbner at Innsbruck University on " An algorithm for finding the basis elements of the residue class ring for a zero-dimensional Polynomideal ". With the dissertation, he founded the theory of Gröbner bases and the Buchberger algorithm, which play an important role in computer algebra. Since 1974 he is full professor of Computer Mathematics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, 1987, he founded the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC -Linz ).

Science

At the age of 23 years Buchberger invented the theory of " Gröbner bases ", a basic method of computer mathematics, which is now used worldwide in millions of installations in all modern mathematical software systems and continue to work on which numerous international research groups. A total of 10 textbooks and approximately 1,000 scientific publications on Buchberger's theory have been published so far. The theory of Gröbner bases is likely the most internationally cited Austrian research results in the field of computer mathematics be (over 3000 Citations Research in the index). Each year, new applications of Buchberger's theory are found in very different technological areas, eg breaking a hitherto regarded as unbreakable cryptographic codes with Buchberger's method ( Univ. Paris VI), the new control system for the oil production platforms of Shell with greater and longer yield, and to identify common ancestor in the genetic evolution of chains of species.

CURRENT main area of ​​research is the development of Buchberger's mathematical software system " Theorema ", with the mathematical thinking process itself by mathematical algorithms ( " computer " ) can be supported. This leads to increase the efficiency, accuracy, verifiability, modularization and re-organization of the scientific process in mathematical research.

Technology Management for Austria

In 1985 Buchberger international scientific Journal of Symbolic Computation, the first journal in the field of Symbolic Computation and was its editor until 1995.

In 1987 he founded the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC) at Johannes Kepler University Linz and forwarded this to 2000.

In 1989, Buchberger the Hagenberg Software Park in Hagenberg im Mühlkreisautobahn in which under his direction since then more than 1,000 jobs were created. Three years later he founded the Fachhochschule Hagenberg. In 2007 he built the first Master 's Program on Informatics in Austria in Hagenberg Software Park.

Other services

Buchberger created as an IT lecturer at the University of Innsbruck, the concept for the there started in 2001, studying computer science.

Awards

Bruno Buchberger holds honorary doctorates of the Universities of Nijmegen (Netherlands, 1995), Timisoara (Romania, 2000), Bath (UK, 2005), Waterloo (Canada, 2011) and Innsbruck ( Austria, 2012). As one of only 23 Austrians ( including only two mathematicians ) he was inducted in 1992 in the Academia Europaea (European Academy of Sciences) in London. 2011 was followed by the recording as a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and an honorary member of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG ). Bruno Buchberger was elected in 2010 for his achievements in the establishment of the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation of the press in the research section, as an Austrian of the year. In 2007 he received the Paris Kanellakis Award and in 2006 the Julius -Raab medal.