Peter Henrici (mathematician)

Peter Henrici (* September 13, 1923 in Basel, † March 13, 1987 in Zurich ) was a Swiss mathematician who specifically focused on numerical mathematics in the theory of functions.

Henrici studied from 1942 to 1944 at the University of Basel Jura and then electrical engineering and mathematics at the ETH Zurich, where he in 1951 his diploma (the solution of plane potential problems with sharp and rounded corners by conformal mappings over) and 1948 made ​​in Mathematics in Electrical and 1952 received his doctorate under Eduard Stiefel ( for functional theory of wave equation. applications with special ranks and integrals with Bessel, Whittakerschen and Mathieu functions, even in Comm.Math.Helv. , vol 27, p 235). After that, he conducted research at ETH Zurich in Applied Mathematics and aerodynamics. In 1951 he went to the USA, where he first research associate at the American University in Washington, DC, in 1956 associate professor and in 1960 professor at the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA), was. In 1958 he acquired U.S. citizenship. In 1962 he became professor at the ETH Zurich, where he remained until his death. From 1985 he was also William Rand Kenan Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard University and Stanford University.

Henrici authored eleven books, including a three-volume monograph on Numerical methods in the theory of functions, and over 80 research papers.

In 1962 he gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM ) in Stockholm ( Problems of stability and error integration in the numerical integration of ordinary differential equations ). 1977 to 1980 he was president of the Society for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics ( GAMM ). In 1978 he held the Von Neumann Lectures of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics ( SIAM ).

Henrici played piano in his spare time. He was married twice.

Writings

  • Discrete variable methods in ordinary differential equations, 1962
  • Lecture Notes on Elementary Numerical Analysis, New York, Wiley 1962
  • Error propagation for difference methods, Wiley, 1963
  • Elements of numerical analysis, BI college paperbacks, 2 volumes 1972
  • Applied and computational complex analysis, 3 volumes, Wiley, 1974-1986
  • Computational analysis with the HP 25 pocket calculator, Wiley 1977 ( German edition Oldenbourg 1978)
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