Adhemar Bultheel

Adhemar François Bultheel (born 1948) is a Belgian mathematician and computer scientist, the former president of the Belgian Mathematical Society.

Bultheel was born in Zwijndrecht, Belgium on December 14, 1948.

He remained at KU Leuven for a bachelor's degree in 1975 and a PhD in mathematics in 1979.

[1] His dissertation, Recursive Rational Approximation, was jointly supervised by Patrick M. Dewilde and Hugo Van de Vel.

[2] Except for a year of military service, he was employed at KU Leuven for his entire career, retiring as a professor emeritus of computer science in 2009.