Hans F. Weinberger

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Hans Felix Weinberger (born September 27, 1928 in Vienna , † September 15, 2017 in Durham , North Carolina ) was an American mathematician.

Life

In 1938 Hans Weinberger's Jewish parents fled with him to the United States and settled in Altoona , Pennsylvania . Weinberger has been interested in the natural sciences since his youth and successfully took part in talent competitions. He studied mathematics at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh (later Carnegie Mellon University). His fellow students included John Nash and Raoul Bott . In 1950 he received his doctorate with Richard Duffin with the work Fourier Transforms of Moebius Series . He then went to the University of Maryland, College Park , where he worked for ten years at the Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Applied Mathematics. In 1960 he moved to the University of Minnesota and became a full professor . He stayed there until his retirement in 1998. From 1982 to 1987 he was the first director of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) at the University of Minnesota, which he founded.

Weinberger made important contributions in the field of solving partial differential equations , especially in eigenvalue problems . He was interested in various practical applications of his research in physics, mechanics and related areas. Since the late 1970s, he has also published works on mathematical biology . He is the author of several monographs. In 1981 he became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1986 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2012 he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

Fonts (selection)

  • Hans F. Weinberger, John E. Osborn: Variational Methods in Boundary Value Problems . University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 1961, pp. 100 .
  • HF Weinberger: A First Course in Partial Differential Equations with Complex Variables and Transform Methods . Blaisdell Publ. Co., New York 1965.
  • Murray H. Protter, Hans F. Weinberger: Maximum Principles in Differential Equations . 3rd (corr.) Edition. Springer, 1999, ISBN 978-0-387-96068-5 , pp. 261 .
  • Hans F. Weinberger: Variational Methods for Eigenvalue Approximation . Ed .: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (=  CBMS-NSF Regional Conference Series in Applied Mathematics ). 1974, ISBN 978-0-89871-012-0 , pp. 160 , doi : 10.1137 / 1.9781611970531 .

literature

  • Hans Weinberger. In memoriam. University of Minnesota, School of Mathematics, accessed December 26, 2017 .
  • Don Aronson et al. a .: Hans F. Weinberger (1928-2017), Notices AMS, Volume 65, 2018, No. 7, p. 850

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans F. Weinberger in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. ^ Historic Fellows Listing. American Association for the Advancement of Science, accessed March 27, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter W. (PDF; 852 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved December 26, 2017 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Weinberger, Hans F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weinberger, Hans Felix (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 15th September 2017
Place of death Durham , North Carolina