David Gilbarg [SEP] place of death
David Gilbarg
David Gilbarg (17 September 1918, Boston, Massachusetts – 20 April 2001, Palo Alto, California) was an American mathematician, and a professor emeritus at Stanford University.
He completed his Ph.D. at Indiana University in 1941; his dissertation, titled "On the Structure of the sgroup of p-adic 1-units", was written under the supervision of Emil Artin.
Gilbarg was co-author, together with his student Neil Trudinger, of the book "Elliptic Partial Differential Equations of Second Order"
Mathematics, as Director of the Centre for Mathematical Analysis and as Director of the Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, before becoming Dean of the School of Mathematical Sciences in 1992. He currently coordinates ANU's Applied and Nonlinear Analysis program.
He is co-author, together with his thesis advisor, David Gilbarg, of the book "Elliptic Partial Differential Equations of Second Order".
Honours.
- 1978, elected as a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.
- 1981, first recipient of the