Annie A. M. Cuyt (born 1956) is a Belgian computational mathematician known for her work on

continued fraction In mathematics, a continued fraction is an expression (mathematics), expression obtained through an iterative process of representing a number as the sum of its integer part and the multiplicative inverse, reciprocal of another number, then writ ...

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 ...

Padé approximant In mathematics, a Padé approximant is the "best" approximation of a function near a specific point by a rational function of given order. Under this technique, the approximant's power series agrees with the power series of the function it is ap ...

s, and related topics. She is a professor at the

University of Antwerp The University of Antwerp ( nl, Universiteit Antwerpen) is a major Belgian university located in the city of Antwerp. The official abbreviation is ''UA'', but ''UAntwerpen'' is more recently used. The University of Antwerp has about 20,000 stud ...

, and a member of the

Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts The Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts ( nl, Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten, or KVAB) is one of an independent learned society of science and arts of the Flemish Community in Belgium. ...

Education and career

Cuyt was born on 27 May 1956 in Elizabethstad (now

Lubumbashi Lubumbashi (former names: ( French), (Dutch)) is the second-largest city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, located in the country's southeasternmost part, along the border with Zambia. The capital and principal city of the Haut-Katanga ...

), in the

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. She earned her Ph.D. at the

in 1982. Her dissertation, ''Padé approximants for operators: theory and applications'', was promoted by Luc Wuytack. She was a postdoctoral researcher with support from the

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (german: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung) is a foundation established by the government of the Federal Republic of Germany and funded by the Federal Foreign Office, the Federal Ministry of Education and Resear ...

, and completed a

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in 1986. She is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Antwerp, where she leads the computational mathematics group.

Books

Cuyt is the author or coauthor of: *''Padé Approximants for Operators: Theory and Applications'' (Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1065, Springer, 1984) *''Nonlinear Methods in Numerical Analysis'' (with Luc Wuytack, North-Holland Mathematics Studies 136, North-Holland, 1987) *''Handbook of Continued Fractions for Special Functions'' (with Vigdis Brevik Petersen, Brigitte Verdonk, Haakon Waadeland, and William B. Jones, Springer, 2008)

Recognition

Cuyt was elected to the

in 2013. The 4th Dolomites Workshop on Constructive Approximation and Applications, in 2016, and a special issue of the ''Dolomites Research Notes on Approximation'', published in 2017, were dedicated to Cuyt in honor of her 60th birthday.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cuyt, Annie 1956 births Living people People from Lubumbashi Belgian mathematicians Belgian women mathematicians University of Antwerp alumni Academic staff of the University of Antwerp