Gisela Engeln-Müllges (born 1940) is a German mathematician and artist. She is a professor of numerical mathematics at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences, where she is also a former vice rector for research, development, and technology.

Education and academic career

Engeln-Müllges was born in

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, in 1940. After

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, Leipzig became part of East Germany (the

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), and Engeln-Müllges escaped to the west in 1961. She studied mathematics at

RWTH Aachen University RWTH Aachen University (), also known as North Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Technical University of Aachen, University of Aachen, or ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hoch ...

beginning in 1961, and completed a doctorate (

Dr. rer. nat. ''Doctor rerum naturalium'' ( for, , Latin, doctor of natural sciences, lit. 'doctor of the things of nature'), abbreviated Dr. rer. nat., is a doctoral academic degree awarded by universities in some European countries (e.g. Germany, Austria and C ...

) in 1971, with a dissertation ''Fluchtebenennomogramme zur Darstellung von Funktionensystemen: Ihre Theorie und praktische Verwendbarkeit'' concerning

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 ...

. She has been a professor at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences since 1982, and was vice rector there from 1992 to 2005. With Frank Uhlig, she is the author of the books ''Numerik-Algorithmen mit C'' and ''Numerik-Algorithmen mit Fortran'' (7th ed., 1993, translated into English as ''Numerical Algorithms with Fortran'' and ''Numerical Algorithms with C'', Springer, 1996).

Art

Engeln-Müllges's artworks are abstract, and include both paintings and cast-metal sculptures, based on her many years of work with artist . In 2019, she was one of the selected artists for the London Art Biennale.

Recognition

Engeln-Müllges was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in 1992. In 2005, she was given an honorary doctorate by

Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University (russian: Нижегородский государственный технический университет им. Р. Е. Алексеева, NNSTU) is a public technical university in Nizhny Novg ...

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