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).
Books
By Stakgold
- Boundary Value Problems of Mathematical Physics, 2 vols. (Macmillan, 1967), Macmillan series in advanced mathematics and theoretical physics, LCCN 67-10304; reprint 2000, SIAM Classics in applied mathematics, no. 29
- 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), LCCN 73-78428
- 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", LCCN 99-87683
Other
- Nonlinear Problems in Applied Mathematics: in honor of Ivar Stakgold on his 70th birthday, eds. T.S. Angell and others (Philadelphia:SIAM, 1996), LCCN 96-112982
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
References
- "Obituary: Ivar Stakgold". The San Diego Union Tribune. San Diego, California. 12 June 2018. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
- Francis, Henry G.; Truscott, Alan F.; Francis, Dorthy A., eds. (1994). The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge (5th ed.). Memphis, TN: American Contract Bridge League. p. 746. ISBN 0-943855-48-9. LCCN 96188639.
- ^ "Contributor biographical information for Green's functions and boundary value problems / Ivar Stakgold". Library of Congress. . Retrieved 2014-11-04.
With more information linked. - ^ "Publisher description for Boundary value problems of mathematical physics / Ivar Stakgold". Library of Congress. . Retrieved 2014-11-04.
With more information linked. - "Ivar Stakgold Obituary (1925 - 2018) - San Diego, Ca, CA - San Diego Union-Tribune". Legacy.com.
- American Men & Women of Science: Q-S. Thomson Gale. 2003. p. 943. ISBN 0787665290.
- "Ivar Stakgold". Mathematics Genealogy Project. North Dakota State University. Retrieved 2014-11-04.
- "CCoM People Faculty". Center for Computational Mathematics. University of California, San Diego. Retrieved 2024-06-19.
- ^ "Silodor Open Pairs Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-07-27. p. 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
- "Vanderbilt Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-03-24. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
- "Mixed BAM Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-07-24. p. 14. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
- "Reisinger Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2013-12-06. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
- ^ "Spingold Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-07-21. p. 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
- "Mitchell BAM Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2013-12-01. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
External links
- "International record for Ivar Stakgold". World Bridge Federation.
- Ivar Stakgold at Library of Congress, with 8 library catalog records
- 1925 births
- 2018 deaths
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- American contract bridge players
- Bermuda Bowl players
- Norwegian people of Russian-Jewish descent
- Norwegian emigrants to the United States
- American people of Russian-Jewish descent
- People from Newark, Delaware
- University of Delaware faculty
- University of California, San Diego faculty
- Presidents of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- Harvard University alumni