Bruno Buchberger

Bruno Buchberger
Born	(1942-10-22) 22 October 1942 (age 82) Innsbruck
Alma mater	University of Innsbruck
Known for	Gröbner bases Buchberger's algorithm
Awards	Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award Austrian Golden Medal of Honor
Scientific career
Fields	Computer mathematics
Institutions	Johannes Kepler University Softwarepark Hagenberg
Thesis	An Algorithm for Finding the Basis Elements of the Residue Class Ring Modulo a Zero-dimensional Polynomial Ideal[1]  (1966)
Doctoral advisor	Wolfgang 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.

Career

In 1987 Buchberger founded and chaired the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC) at Johannes Kepler University. In 1985 he started the Journal of Symbolic Computation, which has now become the premier publication in the field of computer algebra.

Buchberger also conceived Softwarepark Hagenberg in 1989 and since then has been directing the expansion of this Austrian technology park for software.

In 2014 he became a member of the Global Digital Mathematical Library Working Group [3] of the International Mathematical Union.

Awards

• Wilhelm Exner Medal (1995).[4]
• Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award (2007). For theory of Gröbner bases.[5]
• Golden Medal of Honor by the Upper Austrian Government
• Honorary doctorates from the Universities of Nijmegen (1993), Timișoara (2000), Bath (2005), Waterloo (2011), and Innsbruck (2012).
• Herbrand Award for Distinguished Contributions to Automated Reasoning (2018)[6]

See also

• Buchberger's algorithm
• Gröbner bases

References

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.
3. "The Global Digital Mathematical Library Working Group". Archived from the original on 2017-09-21. Retrieved 2015-01-22.
4. Editor, ÖGV. (2015). Wilhelm Exner Medal. Austrian Trade Association. ÖGV. Austria.
5. "ACM Kanellakis Award Honors Innovator of Automated Tools for Mathematics". Association for Computing Machinery. May 2008. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
6. "Herbrand Award for Distinguished Contributions to Automated Reasoning". CADE Inc. Retrieved 31 July 2020.

Sources

• "Foreword: Bruno Buchberger - A Life Devoted to Symbolic Computation". Journal of Symbolic Computation. doi:10.1016/j.jsc.2005.09.005.

External links

Media related to Bruno Buchberger at Wikimedia Commons

• Buchberger's university website
• RISC website