What is Rudolf Wille?
'''Rudolf Wille''' (2 November 1937 &ndash; 22 January 2017) was a [[Germans|German]] [[mathematician]]. He was professor of General Algebra from 1970 to 2003 at [[Darmstadt University of Technology]]. His best known work was the invention of [[Formal concept analysis]]. This is a method to find structures in data, based on objects and their shared attributes. It uses ''mathematical lattice theory''. Wille was born in [[Bremen]] on 2 November 1937. He died on 22 January 2017 in [[Bickenbach, Hesse|Bickenbach]], [[Hesse]]. He was 79.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://lebenswege.faz.net/traueranzeige/rudolf-wille/49028972|title=Rudolf Wille : Traueranzeige|work=Lebenswege|date=25 January 2017|access-date=26 January 2017|language=de}}{{Dead link|date=September 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Wille, Rudolf}} [[Category:1937 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:German mathematicians]] [[Category:People from Bremen (state)]] {{Bio-stub}}