Wolfgang Dahmen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Wolfgang Dahmen

German mathematician

Date of Birth: 19-Oct-1949

Place of Birth: Linnich, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Profession: mathematician, university teacher, taekwondo athlete

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Wolfgang Dahmen (born 19 October 1949) is a German mathematician working in approximation theory, numerical analysis, and partial differential equations.
In 2002 he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize and in 2011 the Gauss Lectureship.
He was also a taekwondo athlete.
He has been the Chair of the Society for the Foundations of Computational Mathematics (2014-). In 2019 he was named a SIAM Fellow "for contributions to numerical methods for partial differential equations, signal processing, and learning".