Murray H. Protter

Harold Protter Murray ( born February 13, 1918 in Brooklyn, † 1 May 2008 the Berkeley ) was an American mathematician who worked on partial differential equations and multiple Analysis textbooks authored.

Protter studied mathematics at the University of Michigan (Master 's degree in 1937 ) and received his doctorate in 1946 at Lipman Bers at Brown University ( " Generalized Spherical Harmonics "). During World War II he worked in applied mathematics in the aircraft factories of Vaught in Stratford (Connecticut). He calculated that there are often responsible for crashes resonance frequencies for the " wing flutter " of military aircraft. 1947 to 1951 he was Assistant Professor at Syracuse University, then from 1951 to 1953 at the Institute for Advanced Study. From 1953 he was at the University of California, Berkeley, where he remained until his retirement in 1988 as professor. 1962 to 1965 he was Chairman of the Faculty of Mathematics there ( and again out of retirement out from 1990 to 1992 Deputy Chairman) and also 1981 to 1983 Managing Director of the Miller Institute of Basic Research in Science. 1959 and 1967 he was a professor at Berkeley Miller.

He dealt in particular with maximum principles in the theory of partial differential equations and partial differential equations of mixed type, as they are important, for example in the transition region to the supersonic flight ( Transsonic flow). He also worked as Applied mathematicians, except his work in the aircraft industry during World War II as a consultant for Shell in mathematical problems of interpretation of seismic data in oil exploration.

He wrote to Charles Morrey in the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s, widespread Analysis textbooks. With runs of over 1 million copies Calculus with Analytic Geometry was there the second-best -selling Analysis textbook. In the 1960s he built the Faculty of Mathematics at Berkeley as one of the leading in the country from where he entered as a mathematics educator for the method of self-determined ( by the students ), pace in the Analysis lessons (Self paced learning). He is very successful and received from the University of Berkeley with its highest distinction (Berkeley Citation ).

1968 to 1972 he was treasurer of the American Mathematical Society and also long- time editor of the book review column in the Bulletin of the AMS.

He was married to Ruth Rotman Protter and had a son ( Philip Protter, a mathematician who works in Operations Research and a professor at Cornell University ), and a daughter.

Writings

  • With Charles Morrey: Calculus with Analytic Geometry: A first Course, Addison -Wesley 1964
  • Same: Intermediate Calculus, Springer 1971, 1985
  • The same: A First Course in Real Analysis, Springer, Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, 1976, 1997
  • Same: Modern Mathematical Analysis, Addison -Wesley 1966
  • Same: Calculus for College Students, Addison -Wesley 1967
  • Same: Analytic Geometry, Addison -Wesley 1975
  • Basic Elements of Real Analysis, Springer 1998
  • Hans Weinberger: Maximum Principles in Differential Equations, 1967, Springer 1999
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