W. Gander and J. Hrebicek, ed., Solving Problems in Scientific Computing
using Maple and Matlab, Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York, 1993,
2nd edition 1995, 3rd edition 1997, 4th edition 2004.
Chinese edition by China Higer Education Press Beijing and Springer
1999.
Portuguese edition by Editora Edgard Blücher Ltda., Sao Paulo,
2001.
Russian edition of fourth edition: December 2005, Publisher Vassamedia,
Minsk, Bjelarus.
Maple and Matlab Scripts are available on the
Book WEB Page
Some Publications:
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W. Gander:
On the Linear Least Squares Problem with a Quadratic Constraint
.
This Stanford Report, STAN-CS-78-697, November 1978
was reprinted because the electronic Version
in the Stanford Library is unreadable due to many scanning errors. The Report
can be downloaded
here (pdf)
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Walter Gander: Infinity and Finite Arithmetic.
Manuscript of a book chapter in the "Festschrift"
Adventures Between
Lower Bounds and Higher Altitudes - Essays Dedicated to Juraj
Hromkovic on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday,
Springer, 2018
download
(pdf)
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W. Gander:
Symposium zu Ehren von Prof. em. Urs Hochstrasser
.
D-INFK Spotlight, 2016
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W. Gander, U.Hochstrasser, A. Pluess:
Die Zeichen der Zeit erkannt,
Zeitungsartikel im "Der Bund", 26. Mai 2015
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W. Gander: Informatics -- New Basic Subject,
Bulletin of the EATCS, 2015
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W. Gander:
The Life of a Computer Pioneer.
BLOG@CACM
April 13, 2015
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Hanna Rutishauser und Walter Gander:
Programmieren, welche Bürde!.
(online)
Informatik Spektrum, Dezember 2014.
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W.Gander: 50 Jahre Programmieren .
D-INFK Spotlight, 2014
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Walter Gander: Informatics and General Education.
In: Informatics in Schools, Teaching and Learning Perspectives
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 8730
Proceedings, ISSEP 2014, Istanbul, Turkey, September 22-25, 2014.
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Leon, S. J., Björck, A. and Gander, W.:
Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization: 100 years and more.
Numer. Linear Algebra Appl. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,
(published online: 4 June 2012),
May 2013; 20: pp. 492--532.
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W. Gander: Ein Beispiel für; Daten: das Factbook der CIA.
Informatik-Spektrum,
Springer Berlin / Heidelberg,
ISSN0170-6012 (Print) 1432-122X
(Online)
July 29, 2009.
Informatik-Spektrum: Volume 33, Issue 3 (2010), Page 296
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Walter Gander: Algorithms for the QR-Decomposition.
This is an old unpublished SAM-report (1980) which has been retyped in LaTeX
and augmented by an appendix containing all the algorithms as MATLAB functions.
Abstract, Paper
(pdf)
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W. Gander: Writing the first LaTeX book.
TUGboat, Volume 31 (2010), No. 2, pp. 154--157.
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W. Gander: Solving Least Squares Problems.
Proceedings of the 6th Summer School on Computational Biology,
September 23--25, 2010 Lednice, Czech Republic.
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Walter Gander:
Zeros of Determinants of $\lambda$-Matrices,
(2007).
Abstract
, Paper (pdf)
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Walter Gander: Generating Numerical Algorithms with Computer Algebra,
BIT Numerical Mathematics (2006) 46: 491-504
(Special edition dedicated to Germund Dahlquist).
Abstract
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Walter Gander: Heisenberg Effects in Computer-Arithmetic.
This
research focus article published 2005 on the Department web-page describes problems with
modern processors using 80-bit registers. It is not reproducible any more with newer versions of Matlab.
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Walter Gander: Change of basis in polynomial interpolation,
Numer. Linear Algebra Appl. 2005; 12; 769--778.
Abstract
Report
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W. Gander and W. Gautschi: Adaptive Quadrature - Revisited,
BIT
Vol. 40, No. 1, March 2000, pp. 84--101.
CS technical report: Report (gzipped, 82K).
Programs: adaptsim.m, adaptlob.m
Curriculum Vitae:
Walter Gander, born May 24, 1944, from Saanen (BE). Education: Diploma
in mathematics ETH Zürich
1968. Then assistant of H. Rutishauser in his new institute of computer
science. Ph.D. in mathematics 1973, supervisor P. Henrici. From 1973
to 1987:
Professor for numerical analysis and computer science at the engineering
college
Neu-Technikum
Buchs.
1977/78 Visiting Scientist at
Stanford University.
1979 Habilitation and Privatdozent for numerical analysis at ETHZ. 1984,
1993 and 2006 sabbatical leaves again at Stanford University. From 1987 to 1991
associate, since 1991 full professor for computer science at ETH Zürich.
From 1989 to 1997 head of the Institute
of Scientific Computing. 1990 - 1992: chairmen of the faculty of computer
science. 1989 -1991 head of the Swiss Supercomputer Initiative for acquiring
the national
supercomputer in Manno.
From Fall 1997 to Fall 2001 chairman of the
department
and director of
education
of computer science.
A complete CV with list of publications is available
here (pdf)
Research interests: Scientific computing, i.e. studying the solution
of problems with the use of mathematics and computation. Numerical Linear
Algebra and Parallel Computing.
Last update: August 28, 2022