Keith William Morton

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Keith William "Bill" Morton (born May 28, 1930 in Ipswich ) is a British mathematician who deals with partial differential equations and their numerics.

Morton was educated at Oxford University and was largely inspired by the admiration of David Hilbert and Göttingen mathematics. He received his doctorate in 1964 from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University under Harold Grad with a thesis on plasma physics (Finite amplitude compression waves in a collision free plasma) and was influenced by Richard Courant and Peter Lax , with whom he is friends. A collaboration with Robert Richtmyer developed from which a classic of modern textbook literature emerged. Back in England, he started his career with the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority before becoming Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Reading . Morton moved to Oxford University as a professor to head the Computing Laboratory and is a Fellow of Balliol College. After his retirement he taught at the University of Bath for several years .

Morton deals with the numerical solution of partial differential equations with applications in particular in hydrodynamics.

In 2010 he received the De Morgan Medal for, according to the laudation, creating “original elegant mathematics in the service of application to problems in the real world”.

Thomas Sonar (professor at the TU Braunschweig) is one of his doctoral students .

Fonts

  • with David Francis Mayers: Numerical solution of partial differential equations, Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition 2005
  • Numerical solution of convection-diffusion problems, 1996
  • with Robert Richtmyer : Difference methods for initial value problems, Interscience 1967, 2nd edition 1994
  • Editor with MJ Baines: Numerical methods for Fluid Dynamics, 5 volumes 1982 to 1995 (first volume Academic Press, then Oxford University Press)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the awarding of the De Morgan Medal, Oxford Mathematical Institute , for creation of original, elegant mathematics in the service of real-world applications
personal data
SURNAME Morton, Keith William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morton, KW; Morton, Bill (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Ipswich