Dietrich Braess

Dietrich Braess ( born June 16, 1938 in Hamburg ) is a German mathematician who deals with numerical mathematics.

Braess in 1964 with Gustav Kramer at the University of Hamburg in theoretical nuclear physics doctorate ( influence of the interaction in the final state on the electric splitting of the deuteron near threshold). He then moved on to mathematics, habilitated in 1968 at the University of Münster, where he was a professor afterwards. Since the late 1970s, he has been Professor at the Ruhr- University Bochum.

He dealt with approximation theory, Multigrid Methods and Finite Elements, CG method. He is best known for the publication of the Braess paradox, which, inter alia, occurs in transport planning.

Writings

  • Wolfgang Hackbusch, Ulrich Trott Berg ( Editor): Advances in Multigrid Methods, Vieweg, Braunschweig -Wiesbaden 1985
  • Nonlinear Approximation Theory, Springer, 1986
  • With LL Schumaker (Eds. ): Numerical Methods in Approximation Theory, Birkhäuser 1992
  • Finite elements: theory, fast solvers, and applications in elasticity theory, Springer 1992, 1997, 2003, 2007, 2013; English edition: Finite Elements: Theory, Fast Solvers and Applications in Solid Mechanics, Cambridge University Press, 1997, 2001, 2007
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