Joachim von zur Gathen (born 1950) is a German and
computer scientist
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Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...
. His research spans several areas in mathematics and computer science, including
computational complexity
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,
cryptography,
finite fields, and
computer algebra
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.
Biography
Joachim von zur Gathen has a Diploma in Mathematik from
ETH Zürich, and graduated as
Dr. phil. from
Universität Zürich in 1980 under the supervision of
Volker Strassen. The title of his Ph.D. thesis is "Sekantenräume von Kurven". In 1981 he accepted a position in the Department of Computer Science at the
University of Toronto, eventually becoming a Full Professor. In 1994, he moved to the Department of Mathematics at
Universität Paderborn
Paderborn University (german: Universität Paderborn) is one of the fourteen public research universities in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It was founded in 1972 and 20,308 students were enrolled at the university in the winter ...
. Since 2004, he has been a professor at the B-IT and the Department of Computer Science at the
Universität Bonn. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the
Birkhäuser (now
Springer) journal ''Computational Complexity''.
A symposium at B-IT in 2010 was held in honor of his 60th birthday, and a special issue of the
Journal of Symbolic Computation was published as a
festschrift for the event.
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Selected publications
* Translated into Japanese. Chinese edition.
References
External links
Homepage at the b-it
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1950 births
Living people
20th-century German mathematicians
German computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
21st-century German mathematicians