Bernhard H. Korte (born November 3, 1938, in Bottrop, Germany) is a German mathematician and computer scientist, a professor at the University of Bonn, and an expert in combinatorial optimization.
His thesis was entitled "Beiträge zur Theorie der Hardy'schen Funktionenklassen" (translated, "Contributions to the theory of Hardy function classes"), and was supervised by Ernst Peschl and Walter Thimm.
[2] At the University of Bonn, Korte is the director of the Research Institute for Discrete Mathematics.
In 1997, Korte received the State Prize of Nordrhein-Westfalen,[4] and in 2002 he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
He is also a winner of the Humboldt Prize and a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.