# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/heinz-otto-kreiss
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:38:40.065Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/heinz-otto-kreiss"
name: "Heinz-Otto Kreiss"
slug: "heinz-otto-kreiss"
description: "Heinz-Otto Kreiss was a German 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."
tagline: "German mathematician (1930–2015)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1930"
deathDate: "2015-12-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  popularity:           36.34
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.669978666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz-Otto_Kreiss"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz-Otto_Kreiss"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump