Clifford S. Gardner

Clifford S. Gardner (* 1924 in Fort Smith, Arkansas) is an American mathematician who deals with Applied Mathematics.

Life and work

Gardner attended Philips Academy and Harvard College, where in 1944 he earned his bachelor 's degree. In 1952 he received his doctorate from New York University. He then worked as an applied mathematician, among others, for NASA at Langley Field, the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. From 1967 until his retirement in 1990 he was professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin.

In 1985 he received the Norbert Wiener Award for his contributions to supersonic aerodynamics and plasma physics. In 2006 he was awarded with Martin Kruskal, Miura and John Robert Greene the Leroy P. Steele Prize for her work on the inverse scattering transform method for solving nonlinear differential equations (especially Soliton Equations as the Korteweg -de Vries equation). So they developed a systematic approach to solving many nonlinear equations similar to the Fourier analysis for linear equations.

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