Walter Gautschi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Walter Gautschi

Swiss-American mathematician known for his contributions to numerical analysis

Date of Birth: 11-Sep-1927

Place of Birth: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland

Profession: mathematician

Nationality: United States, Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Walter Gautschi

  • Walter Gautschi (December 11, 1927) is a Swiss-American mathematician, known for his contributions to numerical analysis.
  • He has authored over 200 papers in his area and published four books. Born in Basel, he has a Ph.D.
  • in mathematics from the University of Basel on the thesis Analyse graphischer Integrationsmethoden advised by Alexander Ostrowski and Andreas Speiser (1953). Since then, he did postdoctoral work as a Janggen-Pöhn Research Fellow at the Istituto Nazionale per le Applicazioni del Calcolo in Rome (1954) and at the Harvard Computation Laboratory (1955). He had positions at the National Bureau of Standards (1956–59), the American University in Washington D.C., the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1959–63) before joining Purdue University where he has worked from 1963 to 2000 and now being professor emeritus. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the Technical University of Munich (1970) and held visiting appointments at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1976), Argonne National Laboratory, the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, ETH Zurich (1996-2001), the University of Padova (1997), and the University of Basel (2000). As well-known (z.
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  • Gautschi's most popular contribution (numerical simulation of special functions) offered a technico-philosophical evidence and confidence to de Brange's tour-de-force along the elusive Bieberbach conjecture (coefficients magnitude of schlicht functions), which hitherto received only slow, difficult and partial progress(es) by work of such masters as Bieberbach, Loewner, Gabaredian-Schiffer (the former=one of Ahlfors' student).

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