Josef Stoer

Josef Stoer (born 21 June 1934) is a German mathematician specializing in numerical analysis and professor emeritus of the Institut für Mathematik of Universität Würzburg.^[1]

Josef Stoer
Stoer at Erlangen in 1987 (courtesy MFO)
Born	(1934-06-21) June 21, 1934 (age 91) Meschede, Germany
Nationality	German
Alma mater	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Scientific career
Fields	mathematician numerical analysis
Institutions	Universität Würzburg
Thesis	Über zwei Algorithmen zur Interpolation mit rationalen Funktionen  (1961)
Doctoral advisor	Friedrich Ludwig Bauer Klaus Samelson
Doctoral students	Bingsheng He
Website	www.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de/personal/stoer.html

Stoer was born in Meschede, and earned his Ph.D. in 1961 at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz under Friedrich Ludwig Bauer and Klaus Samelson. He has advised over 20 doctoral students.^[2]

He is the author (with Roland Bulirsch) of Introduction to Numerical Analysis, a standard reference for the theory of numerical methods.^[3] He has an honorary doctorate from the University of Augsburg (2007) and the Technical University of Munich (1997)^[4] and is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (1981).^[5] The Bulirsch–Stoer algorithm is named after him and Roland Bulirsch.^[6]