Biography:Josef Stoer

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Short description: German mathematician (born 1934)
Josef Stoer
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Stoer at Erlangen in 1987 (courtesy MFO)
Born (1934-06-21) June 21, 1934 (age 90)
Meschede
NationalityGerman
Alma materJohannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Scientific career
Fieldsmathematician
numerical analysis
InstitutionsUniversität Würzburg
ThesisÜber zwei Algorithmen zur Interpolation mit rationalen Funktionen (1961)
Doctoral advisorFriedrich Ludwig Bauer
Klaus Samelson
Doctoral studentsBingsheng He
Websitewww.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de/personal/stoer.html

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]

He 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. He has an honorary doctorate from the University of Augsburg (2007) and the Technical University of Munich (1997)[3] and is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (1981).[4] The Bulirsch–Stoer algorithm is named after him and Bulirsch.

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