Peter Henrici (mathematician)
Peter Karl Henrici (born September 13, 1923 in Basel ; † March 13, 1987 in Zurich ) was a Swiss mathematician who dealt with numerical mathematics, especially in function theory.
Life
Henrici studied law at the University of Basel from 1942 to 1944 and then electrical engineering and mathematics at the ETH Zurich , where he received his diploma in mathematics in 1951 (on solving plane potential problems with sharp and rounded corners using conformal images) and in electrical engineering in 1948 and 1952 under Eduard Stiefel ( on the function theory of the wave equation. With applications to special series and integrals with Bessel, Whittaker and Mathieuschen functions, also in Comm. Math. Helv. , Vol. 27, p. 235). He then carried out research in applied mathematics and aerodynamics at the ETH Zurich. In 1951 he went to the USA, where he was initially a research associate at the American University in Washington, DC , became an associate professor in 1956 and a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1960 . In 1958 he became a US citizen. In 1962 he became a professor at the ETH Zurich, where he stayed until his death. From 1985 he was also the William Rand Kenan Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . He was visiting professor at Harvard University and Stanford University , among others .
Henrici wrote eleven books, including a three-volume monograph on numerical methods in function theory, and over 80 research papers.
In 1962 he gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Stockholm (Problems of stability and error integration in the numerical integration of ordinary differential equations). From 1977 to 1980 he was President of the Society for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM). In 1978 he gave the Von Neumann Lectures of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). In 1980 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .
Henrici played the piano in his spare time. He was married twice.
Fonts
- Discrete variable methods in ordinary differential equations, Wiley, 1962
- Lecture Notes on Elementary Numerical Analysis, Wiley, 1962
- Error propagation for difference methods, Wiley, 1963
- Elements of numerical analysis, 2 volumes, BI university handbooks, 1972
- Applied and computational complex analysis, 3 volumes, Wiley, 1974 to 1986
- Computational analysis with the HP 25 pocket calculator, Wiley, 1977
- (German edition: Analytical calculation methods for the pocket calculator HP-25, Oldenbourg, 1978)
literature
- Richard S. Varga , Gene H. Golub : Obituary. In: Numerical Mathematics. Vol. 52, No. 4, 1987, p. 481.
- Gene H. Golub: In Memoriam P. Henrici. In: Journal for Applied Mathematics and Physics. Vol. 38, 1987, No. 3, pp. I-II, doi : 10.1007 / BF00944954 .
Web links
- Partial list of publications from the ETH Library (PDF file)
- Martin Gutknecht: Henrici, Peter. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ^ Harvard University : Report of the President of Harvard College and Reports of Departments . Harvard University Press , Cambridge (Massachusetts) 1964, pp. 34 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ List of members Leopoldina, Peter Henrici
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Henrici, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Henrici, Peter Karl (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 13, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel , Canton of Basel-Stadt , Switzerland |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 13, 1987 |
| Place of death | Zurich , Canton of Zurich , Switzerland |