Josef Stoer (born 21 June 1934) is a German mathematician specializing in
numerical analysis
Numerical analysis is the study of algorithms that use numerical approximation (as opposed to symbolic computation, symbolic manipulations) for the problems of mathematical analysis (as distinguished from discrete mathematics). It is the study of ...
and
professor emeritus
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...
of the Institut für Mathematik of
Universität Würzburg.
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.
He is the author (with
Roland Bulirsch) of ''Introduction to Numerical Analysis'', a standard reference for the theory of
numerical methods
Numerical analysis is the study of algorithms that use numerical approximation (as opposed to symbolic manipulations) for the problems of mathematical analysis (as distinguished from discrete mathematics). It is the study of numerical methods t ...
. 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). The
Bulirsch–Stoer algorithm is named after him and
Roland Bulirsch.
References
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1934 births
Living people
20th-century German mathematicians
21st-century German mathematicians
Numerical analysts