Adhemar Bultheel

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Adhemar François Bultheel (born 1948) is a Belgian mathematician and computer scientist, the former president of the Belgian Mathematical Society.[1] He is a prolific book reviewer for the Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society and for the European Mathematical Society. His research concerns approximation theory.

Education and career[edit]

Bultheel was born in Zwijndrecht, Belgium on December 14, 1948. He earned a licenciate in mathematics in 1970 and another in industrial mathematics in 1971, both from KU Leuven. He remained at KU Leuven for a bachelor's degree in 1975 and a PhD in mathematics in 1979.[1] His dissertation, Recursive Rational Approximation, was jointly supervised by Patrick M. Dewilde and Hugo Van de Vel.[2]

Except for a year of military service, he was employed at KU Leuven for his entire career, retiring as a professor emeritus of computer science in 2009.[1] He was president of the Belgian Mathematical Society for 2002–2005.[1][3]

Books[edit]

Bultheel is the author of:

  • Laurent Series and their Padé Approximations (Operator Theory: Advances and Applications 27, Birkhäuser, 1987)[4]
  • Linear Algebra, Rational Approximation and Orthogonal Polynomials (with Marc van Barel, Studies in Computational Mathematics 6, North-Holland, 1997)
  • Orthogonal Rational Functions (with Pablo González-Vera, Erik Hendriksen, and Olav Njåstad, Cambridge Monographs on Applied and Computational Mathematics 5, Cambridge University Press, 1999)[5]
  • Inleiding tot de numerieke wiskunde (Acco, 2006)[6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2018-09-12
  2. ^ Adhemar Bultheel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ "News from the BMS" (PDF), BMS-NCM NEWS: The Newsletter of the Belgian Mathematical Society and the National Committee for Mathematics, 39: 1–8, September 15, 2002. See in particular election results, page 3.
  4. ^ Reviews of Laurent Series and their Padé Approximations:
  5. ^ Reviews of Orthogonal Rational Functions:
  6. ^ Reviews of Inleiding tot de numerieke wiskunde:

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