Full disclosure: I know Bruno Buchberger and we briefly worked on a problem in Infinite Group Theory at City College of New York.
That said, I do think that his work ought to bring him much wider fame and praise than it has. Doron seems to agree. I'm not sure I'd have aimed specifically at the Austrian Academy but Doron's opinions are what they are. See http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg, Opinion 47 ================================================================== But the MOST significant contribution by 20th-Century human mathematicians and computer scientists was the creation of COMPUTER ALGEBRA. It is still in a very preliminary stage, but is already revolutionizing the way we DO and THINK about mathematics. Even computer foes often `cheat' and use Maple or Mathematica on the side. It is a scandal that, so far, the pioneers of computer algebra did not get their due recognition by the mathematical establishment. One glaring oversight, reminiscent of Godel only becoming a professor at the age of 47, is that Bruno BUCHBERGER, the great pioneer of computer algebra, whose algorithm revolutionized all the spectrum of mathematics, from robotics to very abstract algebraic geometry, does not get a tiny fraction of the recognition granted to the Atiyahs and the Botts. He is not even a member of the Academy of Science of his native Austria! But one should not fault this or that specific Academy. After all, at least today, national academies consist of members of that narrow-minded, short-sighted species called humans. Bruno Buchberger's heritage, and his Groebner Bases will survive long after most of the current members of the Austrian Academy of Science will be forgotten. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
