Philip Rabinowitz (mathematician)
Philip Rabinowitz | |
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Born | National Bureau of Standards, Weizmann Institute of Science | August 14, 1926
Thesis | Normal Coverings and Uniform Spaces (1951) |
Doctoral advisor | Walter Gottschalk |
Doctoral students | Nira Dyn |
Philip Rabinowitz (August 14, 1926 – July 21, 2006) was an American and Israeli applied mathematician.[1] He was best known for his work in numerical analysis, including his books A First Course in Numerical Analysis with Anthony Ralston and Methods of Numerical Integration with Philip J. Davis. He was the author of numerous articles on numerical computation.
He earned his
National Bureau of Standards and taught at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel
.
References
- ^ Davis, Philip J.; Fraenkel, Aviezri S. (December 2007), "Remembering Philip Rabinowitz" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 54 (11): 1502–1506.
- ^ Philip Rabinowitz at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
External links
- Personal web page[permanent dead link] at the Weizmann Institute of Science