Christoph Zenger
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Christoph Zenger was born on August 10, 1940, in Lindau (Germany). He studied physics at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universitaet in Munich and did a doctorate in mathematics (theory of normed vector spaces) in 1967. In 1973 he did his habilitation in mathematics and in 1977 he became professor of mathematics at TU Muenchen. In 1980 he accepted an offer of a full professorship from the university of the federal forces in Munich. In 1982 he returned to TU Muenchen to fill a chair in computer science. He retired in 2005, but is still active in research.
The most important scientific achievement of Christoph Zenger is the discovery how to harness approximation on sparse grids for the efficient solution of elliptic partial differential equations in higher dimensions.
Beside his substantial scientific work Christoph Zenger will be remembered for profound contributions to contemporary wisdom, the the most important of which have been collected in the volume Löwenzähnchen am Bachesrand.
