Carl de Boor (mathematician)

Carl de Boor, 2004

Carl-Wilhelm Reinhold de Boor (born December 3, 1937 in Stolp , now Poland ) is a German-American mathematician and emeritus professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . His research areas are numerical mathematics and approximation theory , especially splines .

Life

De Boor studied at the University of Hamburg from 1956 to 1959 , from 1959/60 at Harvard University (as assistant to Garrett Birkhoff ) and from 1964 at the University of Michigan , where he received his doctorate in 1966 under Robert Christian F. Bartels (The Method of Projections as Applied to the Numerical Solution of Two Point Boundary Value Problems Using Cubic Splines). 1960 to 1964 he worked as a student trainee at General Motors . His first publications on splines are from 1962. In 1966 he became Assistant Professor and 1968 Associate Professor at Purdue University and from 1972 he was Professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison .

1970 to 1995 he was a visiting scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and 1970/71 visiting professor at the University of Michigan .

He is a US citizen. De Boor is married and has four children.

Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1997 and the National Academy of Engineering in 1993 , he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1987), and was awarded the National Medal of Science in Mathematics in 2003 . He won the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics' John von Neumann Prize in 1996 and the John Gregory Award of Geometric Design in 2009. He has been a member of the Leopoldina since 1998 and is a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences . In 1992 he received the Humboldt Research Award . He is an honorary doctor of Technion and Purdue University and a fellow of SIAM .

In 1985 he was a Fairchild Scholar at Caltech . He was invited speaker at the 1978 International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki (Polynomial Interpolation).

A practical guide to splines. Revised edition, Springer, New York [et al.] 2001, ISBN 0-387-95366-3
On calculating with B-splines. In: J. Approximation Theory. Volume 6, 1972, pp. 50-62.

personal data
SURNAME	De Boor, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	De Boor, Carl-Wilhelm Reinhold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	December 3, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stolp , now Poland