Gerhard Wanner (born 1942 in

Innsbruck Innsbruck (; bar, Innschbruck, label=Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian ) is the capital of Tyrol (state), Tyrol and the List of cities and towns in Austria, fifth-largest city in Austria. On the Inn (river), River Inn, at its junction with the ...

) is an Austrian mathematician.

Education and career

Wanner grew up in

Seefeld in Tirol Seefeld in Tirol is an old farming village, now a major tourist resort, in Innsbruck-Land District in the Austrian state of Tyrol (state), Tyrol with a local population of 3,312 (as of 1 January 2013). The village is located about northwest of Inn ...

and studied mathematics 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. ...

, where he received his doctorate in 1965 with advisor

Wolfgang Gröbner Wolfgang Gröbner (11 February 1899 – 20 August 1980) was an Austrian mathematician. His name is best known for the Gröbner basis, used for computations in algebraic geometry. However, the theory of Gröbner bases for polynomial rings was dev ...

and dissertation ''Ein Beitrag zur numerischen Behandlung von Randwertproblemen gewöhnlicher Differentialgleichungen'' (A contribution to the numerical treatment of boundary value problems of ordinary differential equations). He taught in Innsbruck and from 1973 at the

University of Geneva The University of Geneva (French: ''Université de Genève'') is a public research university located in Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded in 1559 by John Calvin as a theological seminary. It remained focused on theology until the 17th centu ...

. Wanner's research deals with

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 ...

ordinary differential equations In mathematics, an ordinary differential equation (ODE) is a differential equation whose unknown(s) consists of one (or more) function(s) of one variable and involves the derivatives of those functions. The term ''ordinary'' is used in contrast w ...

(about which he wrote a two-volume monograph with

Ernst Hairer Ernst Hairer (born 19 June 1949)B ...

). Wanner is the co-author of an analysis undergraduate textbook and a geometry undergraduate textbook, both of which give historically oriented

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s of mathematics. In 2003 he was awarded, jointly with

Ernst Hairer Ernst Hairer (born 19 June 1949)B ...

, 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 ...

. In 2015 Wanner received

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's George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition. He was president of the

Swiss Mathematical Society The Swiss Mathematical Society (german: Schweizerische Mathematische Gesellschaft; french: Société Mathématique Suisse), founded in Basel on September 4, 1910, is the national mathematical society of Switzerland and a member society of the Europ ...

from 1998 to 1999.

Selected publications

Articles

* * * * * *

Books

* with

Ernst Hairer Ernst Hairer (born 19 June 1949)B ...

: ** ** * with Alexander Ostermann
''Geometry by Its History.''
Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg 2012, . * with Ernst Hairer and Christian Lubich: 2nd edition. Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg 2010,
pbk reprint
* with Ernst Hairer and Sylvert Nørsett: 3rd corrected printing. Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg 2009, . * with Ernst Hairer and Sylvert Nørsett: 2nd edition. Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg 1996,
2013 pbk reprint
* ''Integration gewöhnlicher Differentialgleichungen: Lie-Reihen (mit Programmen), Runge-Kutta-Methoden.'' BI-Hochschultaschenbücher. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim/Zürich 1969.

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