Walter Gautschi
Walter Gautschi (born December 11, 1927 in Basel ) is a Swiss mathematician who works primarily in the field of numerics . He has published four specialist books and over 200 articles in the field. Walter Gautschi is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Computer Science at Purdue University .
Gautschi studied at the University of Basel and did his doctorate in 1953 under Alexander Ostrowski and Andreas Speiser with the work analysis of graphic integration methods . In 1954, Gautschi was a research fellow at the Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo in Rome and in 1955 at the Harvard Computation Laboratory . His research stays at the National Institute of Standards and Technology , the American University from 1956 to 1959 and at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 1959 to 1963 . From 1963 to 2000 he taught at Purdue University. As part of the Fulbright exchange program , he attended the Technical University of Munich in 1970 and in 1976 spent a year off at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . Between 1996 and 2001 he consulted at the Argonne National Laboratory and was temporarily visiting professor at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base as well as at the ETH Zurich , at the University of Padua , and at the University of Basel.
Gautschi's mathematical contributions lie in constructive approximation theory and the investigation of special functions . Gautschi is married with four children and is a US citizen. He is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino.
Web links
- Literature by and about Walter Gautschi in the catalog of the German National Library
- Walter Gautschi website (English)
- Press release from the University of Zurich: “Great scholar and benevolent man” (title of the 2007 Euler lecture given by Walter Gautschi)
- Biography about Alexander M. Ostrowski (English, pdf; 660 kB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter Gautschi at Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ CV of Walter Gautschi
- ↑ Soci: Walter Gautschi. Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, accessed January 6, 2020 (Italian).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gautschi, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 11, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel |