Werner Romberg
Werner Romberg | |
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Munich University | |
| Known for | Romberg's method |
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| Fields | Mathematics Physics |
| Institutions | University of Oslo Technical University of Trondheim Heidelberg University |
| Doctoral advisor | Arnold Sommerfeld |
Werner Romberg (born 16 May 1909 in Berlin; died 5 February 2003 in Heidelberg) was a German mathematician and physicist.
Romberg studied mathematics and physics form 1928 in
German citizenship, and in 1943 recognition of his doctorate was revoked. He became a Norwegian citizen in 1947.[1]
After the Second World War, from 1949 to 1968, he was a professor in Trondheim; from 1960 he was head of the applied mathematics department. In Norway he built up his research group in numerical analysis, and part of the introduction of digital computers, such as GIER, the first computer at Trondheim. From 1968 he held the chair for Mathematical Methods in Natural Sciences and Numerics at Heidelberg University.
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References
- ^ B. Owren, Kongelige Norske Videnskapers Selskap Skrifter 4, 149-155 (2011).
- Stefanie Harrecker: Degradierte Doktoren : die Aberkennung der Doktorwürde an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München während der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus, München : Utz, 2007 ISBN 978-3-8316-0691-7. Kurzbio S. 346
- Claude Brezinski, Some pioneers of extrapolation methods, in Adhemar Bultheel, Ronald Cools (Hrsg.), The birth of numerical analysis, World Scientific 2010, S. 10 (Biographie)
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