Wolfgang Dahmen (born 19 October 1949) is a German mathematician working in approximation theory, numerical analysis, and partial differential equations. In 2002, he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize and in 2011 the Gauss Lectureship. He was also a taekwondo athlete. He has been the Chair of the Society for the Foundations of Computational Mathematics (2014–). In 2019, he was named a SIAM Fellow "for contributions to numerical methods for partial differential equations, signal processing, and learning". He was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, in the 2025 class of fellows.
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Further reading Multiscale, Nonlinear and Adaptive Approximation: Dedicated to Wolfgang Dahmen on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, Ronald DeVore, Angela Kunoth, Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-3-642-03412-1 Homepage at Institut für Geometrie und Praktische Mathematik