Ivar Stakgold (December 13, 1925 – May 29, 2018) was a Norwegian-born American academic mathematician and bridge player from Newark, Delaware. As the sole author of two books he specialized in boundary value problems (LCSH).
Life
Stakgold was born in Oslo, Norway to parents with Russian-Jewish heritage. He studied applied mathematics at Harvard University and earned the Ph.D. in 1949 with a dissertation, The Cauchy Relations In A Molecular Theory of Elasticity, under Léon Nicolas Brillouin. He was professor emeritus of mathematical sciences at the University of Delaware and a researcher at the University of California, San Diego. He was a former president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)."Contributor biographical information for Green's functions and boundary value problems / Ivar Stakgold". Library of Congress. [1998?]. Retrieved 2014-11-04. With more information linked.
Books
By Stakgold Boundary Value Problems of Mathematical Physics, 2 vols. (Macmillan, 1967), Macmillan series in advanced mathematics and theoretical physics, ; reprint 2000, SIAM Classics in applied mathematics, no. 29"Publisher description for Boundary value problems of mathematical physics / Ivar Stakgold". Library of Congress. . Retrieved 2014-11-04. With more information linked. Nonlinear Problems in the Physical Sciences and Biology: proceedings of a Battelle Summer Institute, Seattle, July 3–28, 1972, eds. Stakgold and others (Springer-Verlag, 1973), Green's Functions and Boundary Value Problems (Wiley, 1979); 2nd ed. 1998; 3rd ed. 2011, Stakgold and Michael J. Holst Analytical and Computational Methods in Scattering and Applied Mathematics, eds. Fadil Santosa and Stakgold (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2000) – "A volume to the memory of Ralph Ellis Kleinman",
Other Nonlinear Problems in Applied Mathematics: in honor of Ivar Stakgold on his 70th birthday, eds. T.S. Angell and others (Philadelphia:SIAM, 1996),
Bridge accomplishments
Awards Mott-Smith Trophy (1) 1958
Wins North American Bridge Championships (5) Silodor Open Pairs (1) 1958 Vanderbilt (1) 1958 Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 1969 Reisinger (1) 1958 Spingold (1) 1962
Runners-up
Bermuda Bowl (1) 1959 North American Bridge Championships Silodor Open Pairs (1) 1963 Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams (1) 1957 Spingold (1) 1958
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