David Gilbarg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

David Gilbarg

American mathematician

Date of Birth: 17-Sep-1918

Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 20-Apr-2001

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

David Gilbarg (17 September 1918, Boston, Massachusetts – 20 April 2001, Palo Alto, California) was an American mathematician, and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He completed his Ph.D.
at Indiana University in 1941; his dissertation, titled On the Structure of the sgroup of p-adic 1-units, was written under the supervision of Emil Artin. Gilbarg was co-author, together with his student Neil Trudinger, of the book Elliptic Partial Differential Equations of Second Order.
Besides Trudinger, Gilbarg's doctoral students include Jerald Ericksen and James Serrin.