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Gerhard
Wanner
Kepler, Newton
and Numerical Analysis
9.11.2010
Short curriculum
Professor
Wanner studied mathematics in Innsbruck with Grobner. He spent his
entire career, from 1972 to his retirement a few years ago, at the
University of Geneva. In Geneva he created an outstanding school of
numerical analysis, which gave fundamental contributions to the field
of numerical solution of ordinary differential equations, particularly
Runge Kutta methods, methods for stiff systems and, more recently,
geometric integration methods. He has co-authored several seminal books
on these topics. Professor Wanner has served as President of the
Swiss Mathematical Society for the years 1998-1999 and as Head of the
mathematics section of the Suiss Academy of Science for six
years. Together with his former pupil Ernst Hairer, he was the
recipient of the joint ETH-SIAM "Peter Henrici Price" in 2003. During
the writing of his books, and in the preparation of his teaching, he
got more and more interested in the historical development of
mathematical ideas, a subject to which he has devoted an increasing
attention in the last years.
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