What is Albrecht Böttcher?
'''Albrecht Böttcher''' (born 29 December 1954 in [[Oberwiesenthal]], [[Saxony]], [[Germany]]) is a [[Germany|German]] [[mathematics|mathematician]]. His field of research is [[functional analysis]]. Between 1971 and 1973, Böttcher was in an [[elite]] class for mathematics at the [[Chemnitz University of Technology]]. In 1973, he won a silver medal at the International Math Olympiad in [[Moscow]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://imo-official.org/participant_r.aspx?id=10265 |title=International Mathematical Olympiad |work=imo-official.org |year=2011 |access-date=7 April 2011 |archive-date=18 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110818113139/http://imo-official.org/participant_r.aspx?id=10265 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He studied mathematics from 1975 to 1979 in [[Chemnitz]]. In 1980, he went to [[Rostov on Don]] to study and earned a [[PhD]] there in 1984. The topic of his dissertation was ''The finite section method for the Wiener-Hopf integral operator''. After this he worked as scientist assistance at the university of Chemnitz. Since 1992, he is [[professor]] for ''harmonic analysis and Operator theory'' at the Chemnitz University of Technology. As of 2012, he is the author of nine books and about 180 papers.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~aboettch/papers.html |title=Albrecht Böttcher |work=www-user.tu-chemnitz.de |access-date=15 October 2010 }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~aboettch/ Böttcher's Homepage] {{DEFAULTSORT:Boettcher, Albrecht}} [[Category:1954 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:German mathematicians]] {{bio-stub}}