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Vita Walter Gautschi
VITA WALTER GAUTSCHI April 1, 2021 EDUCATION Ph.D. University of Basel, Switzerland 1953 (Thesis advisor: A. M. Ostrowski) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Research Fellow Istituto Nazionale per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, Rome 1954–55 Research Fellow Harvard Computation Lab. 1955–56 Research Mathematician Natl. Bureau of Standards 1956–59 Professor. Lecturer American U., Washington, D.C. Mathematician Oak Ridge National Lab. 1959–63 Professor of Math. & Computer Science Purdue University 1963–2000 Professor Emeritus Purdue University 2000– Visiting Professor Technical Univ. of Munich, Germany 1970–71 Visiting Professor Mathematics Res. Center, Univ. of WI 1976–77 Visiting Professor ETH Zurich 1996–2001 Visiting Professor University of Padova 1997 Visiting Professor University of Basel 2000 1 PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND HONORS Schweizerische Mathematische Gesellschaft American Mathematical Society Mathematical Association of America Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Corresponding Member, Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich, 2001– Foreign Member, Academy of Sciences, Turin, 2001– SIAM Fellow, Class 2012 Member, Council of the American Mathematical Society, 1975–80, 1984–95 Fulbright Research Scholar, Munich, 1970–71 Listed in Who is Who in the World Listed in the International Biographical Centre’s Top 100 Educators 2009 and in 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century Listed in S. Gottwald, H.-J. Ilgauds, and K.-H. Schlote, Lexikon bedeutender Mathematiker, 2d ed., Verlag Programm Mathematik, Leipzig, in preparation. RESEARCH INTERESTS Numerical Analysis Constructive Approximation Theory Special Functions Orthogonal Polynomials GENERAL INFORMATION Birthdate: December 11, 1927 Birthplace: Basel, Switzerland Marital Status: Married – Erika Children: 4 Citizenship: USA PUBLICATIONS Books B1. (with H. Bavinck and G. M. Willems) Colloquium approximatietheorie, MC Syllabus 14, Mathematisch Centrum Amsterdam, 1971. -
Numerical Analysis in Zurich – 50 Years Ago
2 Martin H. Gutknecht is a professor and senior scientist at ETH Zurich. He was also Scientific Director of the Swiss Center for Scientific Computing (CSCS/SCSC). Numerical Analysis in Zurich – 50 Years Ago Surely, applied mathematics originated in ancient gathering of this sort ever – as an opportunity to times and slowly matured through the centuries, recall some of the local contributions. We focus on but it started to blossom colorfully only when those in numerical analysis and scientific comput- electronic computers became available in the late ing, but we will also touch computers, computer 1940s and early 1950s. This was the gold miner’s languages, and compilers. time of computer builders and numerical analysts. Responsible for establishing (electronic) The venue was not the far west of the United scientific computing in Switzerland was primarily States, but rather some places in its eastern part, Eduard Stiefel (1909–1978): he took the initiative, such as Boston, Princeton, Philadelphia, and New raised the money, hired the right people, directed York, and also places in Europe, most notably, the projects, and, last but not least, made his own Manchester, Amsterdam, and Zurich. Only long lasting contributions to pure and applied math- after these projects had begun did it become ematics. Stiefel got his Dr. sc. math. from ETH in known that the electronic computer had been 1935 with a dissertation on Richtungsfelder und invented earlier by clever individuals: 1937–1939 Fernparallelismus in n-dimensionalen Mannig- by John V. Atanasoff and his gradute student faltigkeiten written under the famous Heinz Hopf. Clifford Berry at Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa, It culminated in the introduction of the Stiefel and, independently, 1935–1941 by Konrad Zuse in (-Whitney) classes, certain characteristic classes Berlin. -
A Festschrift in Honor of Walter Gautschi Proceedings of the Purdue Conference, December 2-5, 1993
ISNM International Series of Numerical Mathematics Vol.119 Edited by K.-H. Hoffmann, Munchen H. D. Mittelmann, Tempe Approximation and Computation: A Festschrift in Honor of Walter Gautschi Proceedings of the Purdue Conference, December 2-5, 1993 Edited by R. V. M. Zahar Birkhauser Boston • Basel • Berlin RV.M. Zahar Departement d'informatique et de recherche operationnelle Universite de Montreal c.P. 6128, Succursale "Centre-Ville" Montreal, Quebec Canada H3C 317 Library of Congress Cataloging In-Publication Data Approximation and computation : a festschrift in honor of Walter Gautschi : proceedings of the Purdue conference, December 2-5, 1993 / edited by R.V.M. Zahar. p. cm. -- (International series of numerical mathematics vol. 119) Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN 978-1-4684-7417-6 ISBN 978-1-4684-7415-2 (eBook) DOl 10.1007/978-1-4684-7415-2 I. Approximation theory--Congresses. 2. Orthogonal polynomials -Congresses. 3. Numerical integration--Congresses. 4. Functions, Special--Congresses. I. Gautschi ,Walter. II. Zahar, R. V. M. (Ramsay Vincent Michel), 1941- . III. Series: International series of numerical mathematics v. 119. QA221.A634 1994 94-44243 511' .4--dc20 CIP Printed on acid-free paper © Birkhiiuser Boston 1994 Birkhiiuser Softcover reprint of the hardcover 18t edition 1994 Copyright is not claimed for works of U.S. Government employees. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior permission of the copyright owner. Permission to photocopy for internal or personal use of specific clients is granted by Birkhiiuser Boston for libraries and other users registered with the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), provided that the base fee of$6.00 per copy, plus $0.20 per page is paid directly to CCC, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, U.S.A. -
Walter Gautschi SIAM Oral History; 2004-12-07
An interview with WALTER GAUTSCHI Conducted by Philip Davis on 7 December, 2004, at the Department of Computer Science, Purdue University Interview conducted by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, as part of grant # DE-FG02-01ER25547 awarded by the US Department of Energy. Transcript and original tapes donated to the Computer History Museum by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics © Computer History Museum Mountain View, California ABSTRACT Walter Gautschi discussed his varied work in numerical analysis and a variety of prominent mathematicians that he has interacted with. Gautschi had fairly humble beginnings as the son of a shoe store manager with deep roots in Switzerland. Talented at mathematics from a young age, Gautschi nearly pursued his other passion, music, and continued taking piano and composition lessons as a student. Mathematics eventually emerged as his calling, and he attended the University of Basel, where his instructors included Andreas Speiser and Alexander Ostrowski, a dominating figure under whom Gautschi eventually completed a thesis in graphical methods. Gautschi recalls an early talk he gave at a GAMM (the German equivalent of SIAM) conference in which Richard Grammel, upon whose work his thesis built, made some disparaging remarks about his talk. Undaunted, Gautschi completed his thesis, broadening his work so that it became applicable to numerical methods as well. Gautschi relates fascinating stories about his mentor, Ostrowski. Born in Ukraine, he left Kiev to study in Germany – first to Marburg under Kurt Hensel and later to Göttingen, where he worked with David Hilbert, Edmund Landau, and Felix Klein – and eventually landed a professorship in Basel in 1927.