Andrew Ronald Mitchell
Andrew Ronald Mitchell , called Ron Mitchell, (born June 22, 1921 in Dundee , † November 22, 2007 ibid) was a British applied mathematician.
Life
Mitchell was the son of a blacksmith and grew up in Dundee . In 1938 he won a scholarship to study mathematics at University College in Dundee, later the University of Dundee (at that time still belonging to the University of St. Andrews). In 1942 he graduated with top marks and was at the Ministry of Aviation during World War II, where he interrogated captured German Air Force pilots, among other things. During his studies and in the 1940s he also played football, even a few times for Chelsea and semi-professionally for some Scottish clubs until 1955 (and again in 1966 in Moscow in a world selection against a Moscow team on the occasion of the International Congress of Mathematicians). In 1946 he became an assistant lecturer at St. Andrews University , where he received his doctorate in 1950 under Daniel Edwin Rutherford ( relaxation methods in compressible flow ). He became a Lecturer at St. Andrews and in 1967 Professor of Numerical Analysis at the University of Dundee (which split off from St. Andrews in 1967). In 1965 he founded international conferences on numerical analysis in St. Andrews and later Dundee with Mike Osborne (Edinburgh).
He dealt with the numerical solution of partial differential equations (finite difference methods including higher order difference methods , finite element methods from the 1960s, relaxation methods).
His 27 PhD students include Graeme Fairweather, Jack Lambert, Sandy Gourlay, and James D. Murray .
Fonts
- with Richard Wait The Finite Element Analysis in Partial Differential Equations , Wiley 1977
- with David F. Griffiths The Finite Difference Method in Partial Differential Equations , Wiley 1980
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Andrew Ronald Mitchell. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
- Obituary by Alistair Watson at SIAM
- Griffiths, Lambert, Watson, Fairweather AR Mitchell. Some biographical and mathematical notes , University of Dundee
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mitchell, Andrew Ronald |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mitchell, Ron |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British mathematician and soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dundee |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 22, 2007 |
| Place of death | Dundee |