Heinz-Otto Kreiss

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Heinz-Otto Kreiss (born September 14, 1930 in Hamburg , German Reich ; † December 16, 2015 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish - American mathematician who dealt with partial differential equations, their numerics and their applications.

Kreiss received his doctorate in 1959 at the Royal Technical University of Stockholm ( on the solution of the Cauchy problem for linear partial differential equations with difference equations ) with Göran Borg . In the 1970s he was professor at the Royal Technical University of Stockholm (where he was the first professor of numerical analysis from 1965) and in the 1980s at Caltech , where he has since retired. He was also a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Kreiss studied the initial value problem of partial differential equations, numerical treatment of partial differential equations, difference equations and applications to hydrodynamics and meteorology.

In 1974 he gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Vancouver (Initial Boundary Value Problems for Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations). In 2002 he received the National Academy of Sciences Prize for Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics. In 2003 he was John von Neumann Lecturer at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Björn Engquist is one of his doctoral students .

Fonts

  • with Jens Lorenz: Initial-boundary value problems and the Navier-Stokes equations, Academic Press 1989, SIAM 2004
  • with Hedwig Ulmer Busenhart: Time-dependent partial differential equations and their numerical solution, Birkhäuser 2001
  • with Bertil Gustafsson, Joseph Oliger: Time dependent problems and difference methods, Wiley 1995

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Minnessida för Heinz Kreiss , accessed on May 29, 2016 (Swedish)
  2. ↑ In Memoriam . UCLA Department of Mathematics.
  3. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ http://www.kva.se/sv/kontakt/Kontakt-sida/?personId=127
  5. ^ NAS Award in Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis
personal data
SURNAME Kreiss, Heinz-Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish-American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 2015
Place of death Stockholm