Bruno Buchberger

Bruno Buchberger
Born (1942-10-22) 22 October 1942 (age 81)
Alma materUniversity of Innsbruck
Known forGröbner bases
Buchberger's algorithm
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsComputer mathematics
Institutions
Thesis An Algorithm for Finding the Basis Elements of the Residue Class Ring Modulo a Zero-dimensional Polynomial Ideal[1]  (1966)
Doctoral advisorWolfgang Gröbner

Bruno Buchberger (born 22 October 1942) is Professor of Computer Mathematics at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria. In his 1965 Ph.D. thesis, he created the theory of Gröbner bases,[2] and has developed this theory throughout his career. He named these objects after his advisor Wolfgang Gröbner. Since 1995, he has been active in the Theorema project at the University of Linz.

  1. ^ Bruno Buchberger at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ Abramson, Michael P. (2009). "Historical background to Gröbner's paper". ACM Communications in Computer Algebra. 43 (1/2): 22–23. doi:10.1145/1610296.1610301. S2CID 10959337.