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Paul Butzer

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German mathematician and historian of mathematics

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According to Wikipedia, Paul Leo Butzer is a German mathematician who specializes in Analysis . Life and work Butzer is the son of an engineer, and his mother studied mathematics at RWTH Aachen University. As opponents of the National Socialists , Butzer's parents left Germany with their children in 1937 and moved to England. During World War II, they relocated to Canada, where Butzer attended school in Montreal and studied mathematics at Loyola College , completing his bachelor's degree in 1948. He then pursued further studies at the University of Toronto, including studying under Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter and William Tutte, and obtained his Ph.D. in 1951 under the supervision of George G. Lorentz . In 1952, he became a lecturer and then an assistant professor at McGill University. In 1955/56, he lived in Paris and then in Mainz. He decided to stay in Germany, where he completed his habilitation at the University of Freiburg, taught in Würzburg, and starting in 1958, at RWTH Aachen University. In 1962, he was appointed professor there. In 1963, he began organizing international conferences on Approximation theory at the Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics, later together with Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy.

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