Editorial: G. C. Hsiao on his 60th birthday

✍ Scribed by Ernst P. Stephan; Wolfgang L. Wendland

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 37 KB
• Volume: 20
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0170-4214
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1476(19970325)20:5<383::aid-mma1815>3.0.co;2-u

✦ Synopsis

This issue collects articles which are dedicated to Prof. G.C. Hsiao on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Further dedicated articles will follow in this journal or in different journals according to the topics.

G.C. Hsiao is one of the few mathematicians who develop and apply modern mathematical analysis to the modelling of problems in mathematical physics and engineering and, moreover, based on sound mathematical analysis, design new efficient algorithms for the numerical solution and simulation of these problems on modern computers. This is a very wide range of interests and shows his extraordinary abilities.

Born in Shanghai (9.9.1934), in 1958 G.C. Hsiao received a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the National Taiwan University and in 1962 a M.S. degree in the same field (under G. Bugliarello) from Carnegie-Mellon University where he obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematics (under R. MacCamy