Dietrich Braess (born 16 June 1938) is a German mathematician. He is known for

Braess's paradox Braess's paradox is the observation that adding one or more roads to a road network can slow down overall traffic flow through it. The paradox was discovered by the German mathematician Dietrich Braess in 1968. The paradox may have analogies in ...

, which deals with

traffic Traffic comprises pedestrians, vehicles, ridden or herded animals, trains, and other conveyances that use public ways (roads) for travel and transportation. Traffic laws govern and regulate traffic, while rules of the road include traffic ...

equilibrium. Braess' focus has centered on numerical treatment of elliptical

differential equations In mathematics, a differential equation is an equation that relates one or more unknown functions and their derivatives. In applications, the functions generally represent physical quantities, the derivatives represent their rates of change, an ...

and nonlinear approximation theories.

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* 1938 births Living people 20th-century German mathematicians 21st-century German mathematicians {{Germany-mathematician-stub