Roland Bulirsch

Roland Bulirsch Zdeněk ( born November 10, 1932 in Reichenberg (Liberec), Czechoslovakia ) is a German mathematician who mainly deals with numerical analysis.

Life

Bulirsch, who grew up in Maffersdorf - neurodegeneration, was from 1947 to 1954 as a machinist at the Siemens - Schuckert in Nuremberg active. In 1954, he made ​​up for the High School and then studied mathematics and physics at the Technical University of Munich, now the Technical University of Munich. Until 1957 he worked alongside in his previous profession.

In 1961 he received his doctorate at the Technical University Munich Dr. rer. nat with Robert Sauer and Joseph Lense, 1966 and his habilitation. From 1967 to 1969 he was an associate professor at the University of California in San Diego and in 1969 he was appointed full professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Cologne. In 1973 he was appointed professor of Higher and Computational Mathematics at the Technical University Munich. In 1990 he was Visiting Professor at the Universidad de Costa Rica. He was repeatedly visiting professor at the University of California. In addition, he was from 1998 to 2001 Senator of the TU Munich. Throughout his career, he had over forty graduate students, including Hans Georg Bock, Peter Deuflhard and Wolfgang Hackbusch. In 2002 he became Professor Emeritus.

His scientific work has resulted among other things in progress in extrapolation methods, more objective methods and mathematical aspects of high technology.

Roland Bulirsch is married and has two daughters.

Other activities

From 1980 to 1988 he was a technical consultant and chairman of the advisory committee of the German Research Foundation (DFG), and from 1983 to 1988 member of the selection committee of the Alexander -von- Humboldt Foundation.

Memberships

  • Member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for the Advancement of Science in Bavaria
  • Member of the Board of the Association for the Promotion and member of the Foundation Board of the Mathematical Research Institute Oberwolfach.
  • Member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering ( acatech)
  • In 1990 a full member of the Academia Europaea Scientiarium et Artium, Salzburg
  • Since 1991, a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
  • 1998 secretary of the mathematics and science class of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Chairman of the Commission for the publication of the works of Johannes Kepler.
  • 1999 Member of the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts

Scientific honors

He was awarded by the University of Hamburg, the Technical University of Liberec and the National Technical University of Athens honorary doctorate. In 1997 he was honored with the Medal of Merit of the Union of Czech Mathematicians and physicists as well as the Commemorative Medal of Charles University in Prague. In 2002 he received the Knight von Gerstner Medal. Other honors in 1998, the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, and in 1999 the Liebig Medal of the former Bohemian district Reichenberg. In 2003 he received, awarded by the Vietnamese Ministry of Culture an honorary doctorate from the University Viên Toan Hoc, Hanoi.

Others

Bulirsch has in publications and presentations to the memory of the great mathematician Constantin Carathéodory (1873-1950) made ​​deserves.

According to estimates of student lectures by Roland Bulirsch were very pictorially, without neglecting the mathematical accuracy. He likes to use his demonstrated on Sun computers solutions for complex systems of differential equations, which he implemented to movies. These included, for example, the trajectories of space probes, or the handling of a car that he has calculated on behalf of the company Audi.

Publication / Editorial Boards

Roland Bulirsch is co-editor of the journal Computational Mathematics, as well as the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Mathematical Modeling. Together with Josef Stoer he wrote one of the standard works on numerical mathematics. The two volumes are the result of math lectures. This will consider eigenvalue problems, ordinary differential equations and iterative methods for solving large systems of linear equations.

  • With Stoer: Numerical Mathematics, 2 volumes, Springer, vol 1, 10th Edition 2007 ( edited by Roland friend, Ronald Hoppe), Vol.2, 5th edition 2005 ( first 1973 Heidelberg by Springer in the series pocket books)
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