Nagy is the most common Hungarian surname, meaning "great".
Neumann is German for "new man", and one of the 20 most common German surnames.
Heinz-Otto Kreiss was a mathematician in the fields of numerical analysis, applied mathematics, and what was the new area of computing in the early 1960s. Born in Hamburg, Germany, he earned his Ph.D. at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan in 1959. Over the course of his long career, Kreiss wrote a number of books in addition to the purely academic journal articles he authored across several disciplines. He was professor at Uppsala University, California Institute of Technology and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He was also a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. At the time of his death, Kreiss was a Swedish citizen, living in Stockholm. He died in Stockholm in 2015, aged 85.
Wolff is a variant form of The Wolf surname. Wolf is the 16th most common surname in Germany. It is derived from baptismal name Wolfgang or Wolfram. High-class, Nobility and Aristocracy person of Norse, mostly possibly Danish or Swedish but Scandinavian origin Nivelung Wolf of Köln is the first mencioned in chronicles as a citizen during the Middle Age since year 1135.
Hájek is a Czech surname, which means "a person from a grove". Its feminine equivalent is Hájková. The surname may refer to:
Vajda is a Hungarian language surname. In medieval times, vajda was the equivalent of voivode, meaning a "war-leader" or "war-lord". The name may refer to:
Pohl is a German surname of several possible origins.
Pilz is a German occupational surname, which means a gatherer of mushrooms, derived from the German pilz "mushroom". Variants of the name include Piltz and Pilzer. The name may refer to:
Lundgren is a Swedish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Backman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Fricke is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Łuczak is a Polish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Petersson is a Swedish patronymic surname meaning "son of Peter". There are alternate Danish, Dutch, English, German, Latvian and Norwegian spellings. Notable people with the surname include:
Gildemeister is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Heinz, is a German given name, a diminutive of Heinrich and cognate of the given name Henry. People with this given name include:
Feiler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Moser is a South German topographic surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Witt is a surname. People with this surname include:
Gunilla Kreiss is a Swedish applied mathematician and numerical analyst specializing in level-set methods and numerical methods for partial differential equations, especially for problems arising in fluid dynamics including two-phase flow, shear flow, and Burgers' equation. She is professor of numerical analysis in the Department of Information Technology, Division of Scientific Computing at Uppsala University, and editor-in-chief of BIT Numerical Mathematics.
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