Ernst Hairer (born 19 June 1949)Book of abstracts from Conference in honour of E. Hairer's 60th birthday 17–20 June 2009 Univ. of Geneva, retrieved 2011-05-06. is a professor of mathematics at the
University of Geneva
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known for his work in
numerical analysis
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His PhD was completed at the
University of Innsbruck
The University of Innsbruck (german: Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck; la, Universitas Leopoldino Franciscea) is a public research university in Innsbruck, the capital of the Austrian federal state of Tyrol, founded on October 15, 1669.
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He is the father of the mathematician
Martin Hairer
Sir Martin Hairer (born 14 November 1975) is an Austrian-British mathematician working in the field of stochastic analysis, in particular stochastic partial differential equations. He is Professor of Mathematics at EPFL (École Polytechnique F ...
, who won the
Fields medal
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in 2014.
Hairer is a member of the editorial boards for the journals ''
Mathematics of Computation
''Mathematics of Computation'' is a bimonthly mathematics journal focused on computational mathematics. It was established in 1943 as ''Mathematical Tables and other Aids to Computation'', obtaining its current name in 1960. Articles older than fi ...
'' and ''Journal of Scientific Computing''.
He wrote, with others, ''Solving Ordinary Differential Equations'' (Hairer, Nørsett, Wanner) and ''L'analyse au fil de l'histoire'' (Hairer, Wanner).
Awards and honors
Hairer holds a doctor honoris causa from the
University of Lund
, motto = Ad utrumque
, mottoeng = Prepared for both
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, type = Public research university
, budget = SEK 9 billion Gerhard Wanner, the
Peter Henrici Prize The Peter Henrici Prize (german: Peter Henrici Preis; french: Prix Peter Henrici; it, Premio Peter Henrici) is a prize awarded jointly by ETH Zurich and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) for "original contributions to applie ...
by the
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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In 2009 a conference on scientific computing and differential equations was held in honor of his 60th birthday, at the University of Geneva, and in the same year the 7th International Conference in Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics in
Crete
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was dedicated in his honor.ICNAAM 2009 , retrieved 2011-05-06.
In 2009–2010 he was John-von-Neumann guest professor at the
Technical University of Munich
The Technical University of Munich (TUM or TU Munich; german: Technische Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It specializes in engineering, technology, medicine, and applied and natural sciences.
Establis ...
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See also
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Bulirsch–Stoer algorithm In numerical analysis, the Bulirsch–Stoer algorithm is a method for the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations which combines three powerful ideas: Richardson extrapolation, the use of rational function extrapolation in Richardson- ...