Walter Gautschi

Walter Gautschi ( born September 11, 1927 in Basel ) is a Swiss mathematician who is primarily active in the field of numerical analysis. He has published several books and over 150 articles in this area. Walter Gautschi is an emeritus professor of mathematics and computer science from Purdue University.

Gautschi studied at the University of Basel and received his PhD in 1953 under Alexander Ostrovsky and Andreas Speiser with the work of graphical integration analysis methods. Gautschi 1954 " Research Fellow" at the Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo in Rome, and in 1955 at the Harvard Computation Laboratory. His research visits conducted in the years 1956-1959 at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the American University, and from 1959 to 1963 at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. From 1963 to 2000 he taught at Purdue University. As part of the Fulbright exchange program in 1970, he attended the Technical University of Munich, 1976, the University of Wisconsin- Madison, in the period 1996-2001, the Argonne National Laboratory, Wright - Patterson and the Air Force Base and the ETH Zurich, 1997, the University of Padua 2000, the University of Basel.

Gautschis mathematical contributions are the constructive approximation theory and the study of special functions. Gautschi is married, has four children and is a U.S. citizen.