Clifford Gardner

Clifford S. Gardner (born January 14, 1924 in Fort Smith , Arkansas , † September 25, 2013 in Austin, Texas ) was an American mathematician who studied applied mathematics .

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Gardner attended Philips Academy and Harvard College, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1944 . In 1952 he received his doctorate from New York University . He then worked as an applied mathematician for NASA in Langley Field , the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University , the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, among others . From 1967 until his retirement in 1990 he was a mathematics professor at the University of Texas at Austin .

In 1985 he received the Norbert Wiener Prize for his contributions to supersonic aerodynamics and plasma physics. In 2006 he and Martin Kruskal , Robert Miura and John Greene received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for their work on the inverse scattering transformation method for solving nonlinear differential equations (especially soliton equations such as the Korteweg-de-Vries equation ). In doing so, they developed a systematic approach to solving many nonlinear equations, similar to Fourier analysis for linear equations.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Report of the Memorial Resolution Committee for Clifford S. Gardner ( English , PDF) University of Texas at Austin. April 25, 2014. Retrieved February 8, 2017.
2. ↑ Steele Prize for Gardner , Notices AMS 2006 (PDF, 384 kB)
3. ↑ Gardner, Greene, Kruskal, Miura, Method for Solving the Korteweg-deVries Equation , Physical Review Letters, Volume 19, 1967, pp. 1095-1097
4. ↑ Gardner, Greene, Kruskal, Miura, Korteweg-de-Vries equation and generalizations VI: Methods for exact solution . In: Comm. Pure Applied Mathematics . Volume 27, 1974, pp. 97-133.