Bruno Buchberger

Bruno Buchberger
Born (1942-10-22) 22 October 1942
Innsbruck
Alma materUniversity of Innsbruck
Known forGröbner bases
Buchberger's algorithm
Awards
  • Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award
  • Austrian Golden Medal of Honour
Scientific career
FieldsComputer mathematics
Institutions
  • Johannes Kepler University
  • Softwarepark Hagenberg
Thesis An Algorithm for Finding the Basis Elements of the Residue Class Ring Modulo a Zero-dimensional Polynomial Ideal  (1966)
Doctoral advisor
Wolfgang Gröbner

Bruno Buchberger (born 22 October 1942) is Professor of Computer Mathematics at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria. In his 1965 Ph.D. thesis, he created the theory of Gröbner bases, and has developed this theory throughout his career. He named these objects after his advisor Wolfgang Gröbner. Since 1995, he has been active in the Theorema project at the University of Linz.