November 27, 2017
EDUCATION
| Ph.D. | University of Basel, Switzerland | 1953 |
| (Thesis advisor: A. M. Ostrowski) |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
| Research Fellow | Istituto Nazionale per le | |
| Applicazioni del Calcolo, Rome | 1954-55 | |
| Research Fellow | Harvard Computation Lab. | 1955-56 |
| Research Mathematician | Natl. Bureau of Standards | 1956-59 |
| Professor. Lecturer | American U., Washington, D.C. | |
| Mathematician | Oak Ridge National Lab. | 1959-63 |
| Professor of Math. | ||
| & Computer Science | Purdue University | 1963-2000 |
| Professor Emeritus | Purdue University | 2000- |
| Visiting Professor | Technical Univ. of Munich, Germany | 1970-71 |
| Visiting Professor | Mathematics Res. Center, Univ. of WI | 1976-77 |
| Visiting Professor | ETH Zurich | 1996-2001 |
| Visiting Professor | University of Padova | 1997 |
| Visiting Professor | University of Basel | 2000 |
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND HONORS
| Schweizerische Mathematische Gesellschaft |
| American Mathematical Society |
| Mathematical Association of America |
| Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics |
| Corresponding Member, Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich, 2001- |
| Foreign Member, Academy of Sciences, Turin, 2001- |
| SIAM Fellow, Class 2012 |
| Member, Council of the American Mathematical Society, 1975-80, 1984-95 |
| Fulbright Research Scholar, Munich, 1970-71 |
| Listed in Who is Who in the World |
| Listed in the International Biographical Centre's Top 100 Educators 2009 and in |
2000 Outstanding Intellectuals
of the  Century |
| Listed in S. Gottwald, H.-J. Ilgauds, and K.-H. Schlote, Lexikon bedeutender |
| Mathematiker, 2d ed., Verlag Programm Mathematik, Leipzig, in preparation. |
RESEARCH INTERESTS
| Numerical Analysis |
| Constructive Approximation Theory |
| Special Functions |
| Orthogonal Polynomials |
GENERAL INFORMATION
| Birthdate: | December 11, 1927 |
| Birthplace: | Basel, Switzerland |
| Marital Status: | Married - Erika |
| Children: | 4 |
| Citizenship: | USA |
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