Erwin Kreyszig, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German mathematician
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Place of Birth: Pirna, Saxony, Germany
About Erwin Kreyszig
- Erwin O.
- Kreyszig (January 6, 1922 in Pirna, Germany – December 12, 2008) was a German Canadian applied mathematician and the Professor of Mathematics at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
- He was a pioneer in the field of applied mathematics: non-wave replicating linear systems.
- He was also a distinguished author, having written the textbook Advanced Engineering Mathematics, the leading textbook for civil, mechanical, electrical, and chemical engineering undergraduate engineering mathematics. Kreyszig received his Ph.D.
- degree in 1949 at the University of Darmstadt under the supervision of Alwin Walther.
- He then continued his research activities at the universities of Tübingen and Münster.
- Prior to joining Carleton University in 1984, he held positions at Stanford University (1954/55), the University of Ottawa (1955/56), Ohio State University (1956–60, professor 1957) and he completed his habilitation at the University of Mainz.
- In 1960 he became professor at the Technical University of Graz and organized the Graz 1964 Mathematical Congress.
- He worked at the University of Düsseldorf (1967–71) and at the University of Karlsruhe (1971–73).
- From 1973 through 1984 he worked at the University of Windsor and since 1984 he had been at Carleton University.
- He was awarded the title of Distinguished Research Professor in 1991 in recognition of a research career during which he published 176 papers in refereed journals, and 37 in refereed conference proceedings. Kreyszig was also an administrator, developing a Computer Centre at the University of Graz, and at the Mathematics Institute at the University of Düsseldorf.
- In 1964, he took a leave of absence from Graz to initiate a doctoral program in mathematics at Texas A&M University. Kreyszig authored 14 books, including Advanced Engineering Mathematics, which was published in its 10th edition in 2011.
- He supervised 104 master's and 22 doctoral students as well as 12 postdoctoral researchers.
- Together with his son he founded the Erwin and Herbert Kreyszig Scholarship which has funded graduate students since 2001.
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