Burton Wendroff

Burton Wendroff ( born March 10, 1930 in New York City ) is an American mathematician, with partial differential equations, numerical analysis and applied mathematics is concerned.

Wendroff studied at New York University with a bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics in 1951 and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a master's degree in mathematics in 1952. Afterwards he was at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he remained for the rest of his career. In 1958, he was at Peter Lax at New York University PhD (Finite Difference Approximations to Solutions of Partial Differential Equations ). From 1966 to 1974 he was a professor at the University of Denver. In addition to his membership at LANL, he was Adjunct Professor at the University of New Mexico.

The Lax- Wendroff method for solving hyperbolic partial differential equations using the finite difference method is named after him and Lax. He is a Fellow of SIAM.

With Tony Warnock he wrote the chess computer program Lachex, which in 1992 took at the World Championships in computer chess in Cologne in 1986 and Madrid.

Writings

  • Theoretical Numerical Analysis, Academic Press, 1966
  • The Theory and Practice of Computation, Addison -Wesley, 1966
  • Lax Difference Schemes for Hyperbolic Equations with High Order of Accuracy, Comm. Pure Appl. Math, 17, 1964, 381-398
  • Richard Liska Composite Schemes for Conservation Laws. SIAM J. Numer. Anal. ( SIAM ) 35, 1998, 2250-2271
  • With Blair Swartz Generalized Finite Difference Schemes, Math Comput., 23, 1969, 37-49.
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