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Peter Karl Henrici
Peter Henrici in 1982
Born(1923-09-13)13 September 1923
Died13 March 1987(1987-03-13) (aged 63)
NationalitySwiss
Alma materETH Zürich
Known forNumerical analysis
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Los Angeles; ETH Zürich; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Doctoral advisorEduard Stiefel
Doctoral studentsGilbert Strang, William B. Gragg

Peter Karl Henrici (13 September 1923 – 13 March 1987) was a Swiss mathematician best known for his contributions to the field of numerical analysis.

Life[edit]

Henrici was born in Basel and studied law for two years at University of Basel. After World War II he transferred to ETH Zürich where he received a diplomainelectrical engineering (1948) and a doctorateinmathematics with Eduard Stiefel as his advisor (1952).

Moving to the USA[edit]

In 1951 he moved to the United States and worked on a joint contract with American University and the National Bureau of Standards. Then, from 1956 to 1962, he taught at University of California, Los Angeles where he became a professor. In 1962 he returned to ETH Zürich as a professor, a position he kept for the rest of his life, though he also held a part-time appointment as William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1985.[1][2]

Numerical Analyst[edit]

An internationally recognized numerical analyst, who published 11 books and more than 80 research papers, Henrici was also a gifted pianist and a highly regarded teacher.[1] He was an editor of a number of scientific journals, including Numerische Mathematik and Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Physik. In 1962, he was a speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians, and in 1978 he gave the SIAM John von Neumann Lecture.[2]

Peter Henrici Prize[edit]

Every four years since 1999, the Peter Henrici Prize is awarded by ETH Zürich and SIAM for "original contributions to applied analysis and numerical analysis and/or for exposition appropriate for applied mathematics and scientific computing".[3]

Publications[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Golub, Gene H.; Varga, Richard S. (1988). "Obituary to Peter Henrici (13 September 1923 – 13 March 1987)". Numerische Mathematik. 52 (5): 481–482. doi:10.1007/BF01400886.
  • ^ a b O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Peter K. Henrici", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  • ^ "Peter Henrici Prize (with ETH Zurich)". Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Retrieved 2 June 2011.
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