Gisela Engeln-Müllges

Gisela Engeln-Müllges (born 1940) is a German mathematician and artist. She is a professor of numerical mathematics at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences, where she is also a former vice rector for research, development, and technology.[1]

Education and academic career

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Engeln-Müllges was born in Leipzig, in 1940. After World War II, Leipzig became part of East Germany (the German Democratic Republic), and Engeln-Müllges escaped to the west in 1961. She studied mathematics at RWTH Aachen University beginning in 1961,[2] and completed a doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in 1971, with a dissertation Fluchtebenennomogramme zur Darstellung von Funktionensystemen: Ihre Theorie und praktische Verwendbarkeit concerning numerical analysis.[3]

She has been a professor at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences since 1982, and was vice rector there from 1992 to 2005.[2][4] With Frank Uhlig, she is the author of the books Numerik-Algorithmen mit C and Numerik-Algorithmen mit Fortran (7th ed., 1993, translated into English as Numerical Algorithms with Fortran and Numerical Algorithms with C, Springer, 1996).[5][6][7]

Engeln-Müllges's artworks are abstract, and include both paintings and cast-metal sculptures, based on her many years of work with artist Benno Werth [de].[1] In 2019, she was one of the selected artists for the London Art Biennale.[2]

Recognition

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Engeln-Müllges was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in 1992.[2][4] In 2005, she was given an honorary doctorate by Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b Bornefeld, Rauke Xenia (11 June 2018), "Kunsthistorikerin Gisela Engeln-Müllges fasziniert mit Perspektiven", Aachener Zeitung (in German)
  2. ^ a b c d "Gisela Engeln-Müllges", 2019 Artist Selection, London Art Biennale, retrieved 2020-02-12[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ Gisela Engeln-Müllges at the Mathematics Genealogy Project  
  4. ^ a b c Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Gisela Engeln-Müllges wird 75: Die FH Aachen wünscht alles Gute zum Geburtstag, Aachen University of Applied Sciences, 27 February 2015 – via Informationsdienst Wissenschaft
  5. ^ Templon, J. A.; Dennis, W. M. (1997), "Review of Numerical Algorithms with Fortran and Numerical Algorithms with C", Computers in Physics, 11 (6): 594, doi:10.1063/1.4822607
  6. ^ KK (June 1997), "Review of Numerical Algorithms with C and Numerical Algorithms with Fortran", Journal of the American Statistical Association, 92 (438): 800–801, doi:10.2307/2965757, JSTOR 2965757
  7. ^ Pryce, John D. (March 1998), "Review of Numerical Algorithms with C and Numerical Algorithms with Fortran", SIAM Review, 40 (1): 171–173, JSTOR 2653021
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