Willard L. Miranker
Willard L. Miranker (March 8, 1932 – April 28, 2011) was an American mathematician and computer scientist, known for his contributions to applied mathematics and numerical mathematics.[1]
Raised in Brooklyn, New York, he earned B.A. (1952), M.S. (1953) and Ph.D. (1956) from the Courant Institute at New York University, the latter on the thesis The Asymptotic Theory of Solutions of U + (K2)U = 0 advised by Joseph Keller. He then worked for the mathematics department at Bell Labs (1956–1958) before joining IBM Research (1961). After retirement from IBM, he joined the computer science faculty at Yale University (1989) as research faculty.
He also held professor affiliations at California Institute of Technology (1963), Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1968), Yale University (1973), University of Paris-Sud (1974), City University of New York (1966–) and New York University (1970–1973).
Miranker's work[2] includes articles and books on stiff differential equations,[3] interval arithmetic,[4] analog computing, and neural networks and the modeling of consciousness.
Miranker was also an accomplished and prolific painter. Over the course of his life, Willard Miranker painted ~4000 watercolors/aquarelles and ~200 oil paintings, many of which are displayed online. He exhibited internationally in New York City, Paris and Bonn.[5]
Awards
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
References
- ^ "Willard L. Miranker". Findagrave. Retrieved 2015-09-21.
- ^ Willard L. Miranker, 60 years, Computing 48:1-3, 1992 fulltext
- ^ Miranker, Willard L., Numerical Methods for Stiff Equations And Singular Perturbation Problems, D. Reidel Publishing Co., Dordrecht-Boston, Mass., 1981. ISBN 90-277-1107-0
- ^ Kulisch, Ulrich W. [in German]; Miranker, Willard L. (1981). Rheinboldt, Werner (ed.). Computer arithmetic in theory and practice. Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (1 ed.). New York, USA: Academic Press, Inc. ISBN 0-12-428650-X.
- ^ The Guide from New York Times (August 29, 1993).
External links
- Paintings by Will Miranker
- Willard L. Miranker at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- short page at Yale University
- FindaGrave entry [1]
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- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- American computer scientists
- 1932 births
- Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences alumni
- Scientists at Bell Labs
- People from Brooklyn
- IBM employees
- Yale University faculty
- California Institute of Technology faculty
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem faculty
- Paris-Sud 11 University faculty
- City University of New York faculty
- 2011 deaths