David Gilbarg

David Gilbarg ( born September 17, 1918 in Boston, † April 20, 2001 in Palo Alto) was an American mathematician who worked on partial differential equations.

Gilbarg studied at the City College of New York, where in 1937 he graduated. In 1941 he received his doctorate with Emil Artin at Indiana University ( The structure of the group of p- adic 1 -units ). During World War II he headed the department of theoretical mechanics and hydrodynamics at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory. After the war he was an assistant professor at Indiana University. From 1957 he was a professor at Stanford University, where he was a visiting professor since 1954 and before that as a visiting scientist. 1959 to 1970 he was chairman of the mathematics department there. In 1989 he retired, but remained active as a mathematician. Gilbarg wrote his doctoral Neil Trudinger a well-known textbook on partial differential equations.

He was married and had a son.

His doctoral include James Serrin, Neil Trudinger, Norman George Meyers, Jerald Ericksen.

Writings

  • Neil Trudinger: Elliptic partial differential equations of second order, Springer 1977, 3rd edition 1998, ISBN 3-540-41160-7
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