Heinz-Otto Kreiss

Heinz-Otto Kreiss (1930 – 16 December 2015) was a renowned mathematician in the fields of numerical analysis, applied mathematics, and what was the new area of computing in the early 1960s. Born in Hamburg, Germany, he earned his Ph.D. at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan in 1959. Over the course of his long career, Kreiss wrote a number of books in addition to the purely academic journal articles he authored across several disciplines. He was professor emeritus at the California Institute of Technology and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He was also a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. At the time of his death, Kreiss was a Swedish citizen, living in Stockholm. He died in Stockholm in 2015, aged 85.^[1]

References

↑ "In Memoriam: Heinz-Otto Kreiss". UCLA Department of Mathematics. 18 December 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2015.

External links

Heinz-Otto Kreiss at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

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