Gerhard Wanner


Gerhard Wanner is an Austrian mathematician.

Education and career

Wanner grew up in Seefeld in Tirol and studied mathematics at the University of Innsbruck, where he received his doctorate in 1965 with advisor Wolfgang Gröbner and dissertation Ein Beitrag zur numerischen Behandlung von Randwertproblemen gewöhnlicher Differentialgleichungen. He taught in Innsbruck and from 1973 at the University of Geneva.
Wanner's research deals with numerical analysis of ordinary differential equations. Wanner is the co-author of an analysis undergraduate textbook and a geometry undergraduate textbook, both of which give historically oriented explanations of mathematics.
In 2003 he was awarded, jointly with Ernst Hairer, the Peter Henrici Prize. In 2015 Wanner received SIAM's George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition.
He was president of the Swiss Mathematical Society from 1998 to 1999.

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