Andrew Ronald Mitchell

Andrew Ronald Mitchell, known as Ron Mitchell, ( born June 22, 1921 in Dundee, † November 22, 2007 ) was a British applied mathematician.

Life

Mitchell was the son of a blacksmith and grew up in Dundee. He won in 1938 a scholarship to study mathematics at University College, Dundee, later the University of Dundee (then still to the University duly St. Andrews ). In 1942 he graduated with honors and was in World War II at the Air Ministry, where he was interrogated captured German Air Force pilots among others. During his studies, and in the 1940s he also played football, even some times for Chelsea and until 1955 semiprofessional for some Scottish clubs ( and again in 1966 in Moscow into a world of selection against a Moscow team on the occasion of the International Congress of Mathematicians ). In 1946 he became an assistant lecturer at St Andrews University, where he received his doctorate in 1950 at Daniel Edwin Rutherford (relaxation methods in compressible flow). He became a lecturer at St. Andrews and in 1967 Professor of Numerical Analysis at the University of Dundee ( which had split off from St. Andrews 1967). In 1965 he founded with Mike Osborne (Edinburgh ) international conferences on numerical analysis in St. Andrews and Dundee later.

He dealt with a numerical solution of partial differential equations ( finite differences methods including finite difference methods high-order finite element methods in the 1960s, relaxation methods ).

Among his 27 Ph.D. students include Graeme Fairweather, Jack Lambert, Sandy Gourlay and James D. Murray.

Writings

• Richard Wait The Finite Element Analysis in Partial Differential Equations, Wiley 1977
• David F. Griffiths The Finite Difference Method in Partial Differential Equations, Wiley 1980