Donald A. Lutz

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Donald Alexander Lutz (born April 2, 1940 in Syracuse , New York ) is an American mathematician and university professor who deals with differential equations and difference equations.

Career

Lutz studied mathematics at Syracuse University , where he obtained his master's degree in 1963 and received his doctorate in 1965 on the subject of "On the characterization of systems of differential equations having regular singular solutions" with Wolfgang Jurkat .

During his long-term professorships at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee (1965 to 1986) and the San Diego State University (from 1996) he found time for visiting professorships, especially in Germany at the University of Ulm (as a Humboldt Research Prize winner ), where he was also committed to student exchanges between American and German universities.

From 1967 to 1969 he was a lecturer at the University of Maryland , 1973 visiting professor at the University of Southern California and 1969/70 at the Mathematical Research Center of the University of Wisconsin – Madison .

He has been married since 1968 and has three children.

Fonts

  • with R. Schäfke: "On the reduction of a class of nonhomogenous linear difference equations", Journal of Difference Equations and Applications, Volume 2, Issue 4, 1996, 423-436, doi : 10.1080 / 10236199608808076

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project