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Ivar Stakgold

Norwegian American mathematician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Ivar Stakgold (December 13, 1925 – May 29, 2018)[1] was a Norwegian-born American academic mathematician and bridge player from Newark, Delaware.[2] As the sole author of two books he specialized in boundary value problems (LCSH).[3][4]

Life

Stakgold was born in Oslo, Norway to parents with Russian-Jewish heritage.[5][6] He studied applied mathematics at Harvard University and earned the Ph.D. in 1949 with a dissertation, The Cauchy Relations In A Molecular Theory of Elasticity, under Léon Nicolas Brillouin.[7] He was professor emeritus of mathematical sciences at the University of Delaware and a researcher at the University of California, San Diego.[8] He was a former president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).[3]

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Books

By Stakgold

  • Boundary Value Problems of Mathematical Physics, 2 vols. (Macmillan, 1967), Macmillan series in advanced mathematics and theoretical physics, LCCN 67-10304; reprint 2000, SIAM Classics in applied mathematics, no. 29[4]
  • Nonlinear Problems in the Physical Sciences and Biology: proceedings of a Battelle Summer Institute, Seattle, July 3–28, 1972, eds. Stakgold and others (Springer-Verlag, 1973), LCCN 73-78428
  • Green's Functions and Boundary Value Problems (Wiley, 1979); 2nd ed. 1998; 3rd ed. 2011, Stakgold and Michael J. Holst[3]
  • Analytical and Computational Methods in Scattering and Applied Mathematics, eds. Fadil Santosa and Stakgold (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2000) – "A volume to the memory of Ralph Ellis Kleinman", LCCN 99-87683

Other

  • Nonlinear Problems in Applied Mathematics: in honor of Ivar Stakgold on his 70th birthday, eds. T.S. Angell and others (Philadelphia:SIAM, 1996), LCCN 96-112982
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