John C. Butcher

For other people named John Butcher, see John Butcher (disambiguation).

John Charles Butcher (born 31 March 1933) is a mathematician who specialises in numerical methods for the solution of ordinary differential equations. Butcher works on multistage methods for initial value problems, such as Runge-Kutta and general linear methods. The Butcher group is named after him.

More recently, he is investigating a new type of method with stability identical to that of a Runge-Kutta method.

Positions held

• Lecturer, University of Sydney, 1959–1961.
• Senior Lecturer, University of Canterbury, 1961–1964.
• Computer Scientist, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, 1965–1966.
• Professor of Mathematics, University of Auckland, 1966–1979.
• Head of Mathematics Department, University of Auckland, 1967–1973.
• Founded Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, 1980.
• Professor of Computer Science, University of Auckland, 1980–1988.
• Head of Applied and Computational Mathematics Unit, University of Auckland, 1989–1994, 1997–1998.
• Professor of Mathematics, University of Auckland, 1989–1998.
• Honorary Research Professor, 1999–.

Publications

• Butcher, John C. (2008), Numerical methods for ordinary differential equations (2nd ed.), John Wiley & Sons Ltd., ISBN 978-0-470-72335-7, MR2401398

External links

• Home page