David Gottlieb (mathematician)
David I. Gottlieb (born November 14, 1944 Tel Aviv , † December 6, 2008 ) was an Israeli mathematician who dealt with numerical analysis.
Life
Gottlieb took part in the Israeli-Arab war in 1967 and (after missing the registration for the study of history) studied mathematics at the University of Tel Aviv , where he received his doctorate in 1972 under Saul Abarbanel ( High order accuracy finite difference schemes for hyperbolic systems ). He was the first graduate student in mathematics at the university. The subject of the dissertation was the difference method for nonlinear partial differential equations (PDE). As a post-doctoral student he went to Gilbert Strang at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he met Steven Orszag , with whom he worked on spectral methods in PDE's, which led to their 1977 standard work. In 1974 he was at the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (ICASE) at NASA (where he later returned frequently) and from 1976 he taught as a senior lecturer and from 1982 with a full professorship at Tel Aviv University, where he was from 1983 to 1985 of the Faculty of Mathematics. From 1985 he was a professor at Brown University , from 1993 as Ford Foundation Professor and from 1996 to 1999 as head of the Department of Applied Mathematics. He died of kidney cancer, which was first diagnosed in 1997.
In addition to spectral methods at PDE, he dealt with higher-order difference schemes, the Gibbs phenomenon, the Perfectly Matched Layer Method (PML) of Berenger's absorbing boundary conditions, numerics of various hydrodynamic problems (such as shock capturing methods) and Galerkin methods. He had 22 PhD students.
In 2008 he was John von Neumann Lecturer (The effect of local features on global expansions). He received honorary doctorates from Uppsala University (1996) and Paris VI University (1994) and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2007) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2008).
He was co-editor of the SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, and the Journal of Scientific Computing. In 1989 he was one of the founders of the ICOSAHOM conferences (International Conference on Spectral and Higher Order Methods).
He was married and had three children. His daughter Sigal Gottlieb is also a mathematician with whom he wrote a book.
Fonts
- with Steven Orszag Numerical analysis of spectral methods: theory and applications , SIAM 1977
- with J. Hesthaven, Sigal Gottlieb Spectral methods for time dependent problems , Cambridge University Press 2006
Web links
- Appreciation from Bertil Gustafsson, Comm. Comput. Physics, 9, 2011, 481, pdf
- Obituary at Brown University
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gottlieb, David |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gottlieb, David I. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tel Aviv |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 6, 2008 |