Josef Stoer | |
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Stoer at Erlangen in 1987 (courtesy MFO)
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Born |
Meschede |
June 21, 1934
Nationality | German |
Fields |
mathematician numerical analysis |
Institutions | Universität Würzburg |
Alma mater | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
Thesis | Über zwei Algorithmen zur Interpolation mit rationalen Funktionen (1961) |
Doctoral advisor |
Friedrich Ludwig Bauer Klaus Samelson |
Doctoral students | Bingsheng He |
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Josef Stoer (born 21 June 1934 in Meschede) is a German mathematician specializing in numerical analysis and professor emeritus of the Institut für Mathematik of Universität Würzburg.
He earned his Ph.D. in 1961 at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz under Friedrich Ludwig Bauer and Klaus Samelson. He has advised over 20 doctoral students.
He is the author (with Roland Bulirsch) of Introduction to Numerical Analysis, a standard reference for the theory of numerical methods. He has an honorary doctorate from the University of Augsburg (2007) and the Technical University of Munich (1997) and is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (1981).