Josef Stoer
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Josef Stoer | |
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 Stoer at Erlangen in 1987 (courtesy MFO) | |
| Born | June 21, 1934 Meschede, Germany |
| Alma mater | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | mathematician numerical analysis |
| Institutions | Universität Würzburg |
| Thesis | Über zwei Algorithmen zur Interpolation mit rationalen Funktionen (1961) |
| Doctoral advisor | Friedrich Ludwig Bauer Klaus Samelson |
| Doctoral students | Bingsheng He |
| Website | www |
Josef Stoer (born 21 June 1934) is a German mathematician specializing in numerical analysis and professor emeritus of the Institut für Mathematik of Universität Würzburg.[1]
Stoer was born in Meschede, and 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.[2]
He is the author (with Roland Bulirsch) of Introduction to Numerical Analysis, a standard reference for the theory of numerical methods.[3] He has an honorary doctorate from the University of Augsburg (2007) and the Technical University of Munich (1997)[4] and is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (1981).[5] The Bulirsch–Stoer algorithm is named after him and Roland Bulirsch.[6]
