A retrospective on research visits of Paul Butzer's Aachen research group to Eastern Europe and Tenerife (Q2675195): Difference between revisions

Paul Butzer (*1928) has been appointed to the RWTH-Aachen, a great part of his mathematical life. He has written (and he still does write) a fully detailed work about his work and his group of mathematicians and him at the RWTH-Aachen and with this colleagues all over the world. The paper is the second one as such, and there is more to come. Below some parts of the paper have been quoted verbatim. Let us start with the abstract: ``Our article ``A retrospective on research visits of Paul Butzer's Aachen research group to North America and Western Europe'' [\textit{P. L. Butzer} and \textit{R. L. Stens}, J. Approx. Theory 257, Article ID 105452, 29 p. (2020; Zbl 1444.41001)] concerned the research visits, contacts and conference participations of members of the Chair ``Lehrstuhl A für Mathematik'' at Aachen to North America and Western Europe. This paper focuses on such research visits of the Aachen Chair and its group to Eastern Europe as well as to Tenerife. The Epilogue treats our top students, different research interests, and conferences on the occasion of PLB's birthday anniversaries.'' The authors refer above to [loc. cit.]. Another reference [\textit{P. L. Butzer}, J. Approx. Theory 160, No. 1--2, 3--18 (2009; Zbl 1194.41002)] has been mentioned in the introduction which we quote in full. As such the interested reader knows what to expect. -- [The full set of references consists of 117 items.] ``Introduction: Our paper ``A retrospect on earlier research visits of members of the Aachen research group to North America and Western Europe'' [Butzer and Stens; loc. cit.] dealt with the research visits Aachen chair to the USA and Canada, and visits to 13 countries in Western Europe present joint paper recounts the research visits to Eastern Europe. ``Eastern Eurol used herein, refers to Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, German Democratic Republic (GDR), former Yugoslavia, Latvia, Estonia and Belarus. The paper also includes the visits to Tenerife because they are connected with the visits to Belarus via Anatoly Kilbas. The article ``A retrospective on 60 years of approximation theory and associated fields'' [Butzer; loc. cit.] sparked considerable interest. It concentrated on eight symposia (co)conducted at the Oberwolfach research center from August 1963 to August 1983. These symposia drew to Oberwolfach almost 250 experts (all recorded) from 24 countries in approximation theory and associated fields, such as harmonic analysis functional analysis and operator theory, integral transform theory, orthogonal polynomials, interpolation and special functions. After its publication, several readers informed PLB they would like to see an article based upon the research visits, contacts and conference participations of members of the Aachen Chair ``Lehrstuhl A für Mathematik'' outside of Germany. From my point of view, such research visits -- highlighted by intellectual exchanges among diverse participants -- are truly necessary to keep a research group abreast of research activities and developments on a global basis. I never accepted a teaching and or research position outside of Aachen that lasted a whole semester in view of my ailing mother between 1977 and 1986 and since l felt it was more important to continue supervising together with our research assistants the diplom and doctoral theses of our many students. These recollections do not cover routine research contacts and invited visits but those which left a special mark; unforgettable, and sometimes demanding, experiences. This paper also covers the conference participations of the assistants, post-docs, and colleagues at Lehrstuhl A für Mathematik, among them Rolf Nessel, Ernst Görlich, Eberhard Stark and Rudolf Stens. The research visits to Turkey, Israel, the Middle East, Egypt, India, and China will be treated in a separate paper.'' The reader of this review can image that the paper contains a wealth of information on its 32 pages! Let us finish with the following remark of the paper: This article is part of the topical collections ``Sampling theory, approximation and their applications. An approximation to Paul Butzer's scientific work'' edited by Carlo Bardaro, Rudolf Stens and Gianluca Vinti.