Ivar Stakgold
Ivar Stakgold (born December 13, 1925) is a Norwegian-born American academic mathematician and bridge player from Newark, Delaware. As the sole author of two books he specialized in boundary value problems (LCSH).
Life
Stakgold was born in Oslo, Norway. He studied applied mathematics at Harvard University and earned the Ph.D. in 1949 with a dissertation under Léon Nicolas Brillouin, The Cauchy Relations In A Molecular Theory of Elasticity. He is professor emeritus of mathematical sciences at the University of Delaware and a researcher at the University of California, San Diego. He is a former president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
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
- 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
- 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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