John C. Butcher
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John Charles Butcher ONZM (born 31 March 1933) is a New Zealand mathematician who specialises in numerical methods for the solution of ordinary differential equations.[1] Butcher works on multistage methods for initial value problems, such as Runge-Kutta and general linear methods. The Butcher group and the Butcher tableau are named after him.
More recently, he is investigating a new type of method with stability identical to that of a Runge-Kutta method.
Positions held
- Lecturer, University of Sydney, 1959–1961.
- Senior Lecturer, University of Canterbury, 1961–1964.
- Computer Scientist, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, 1965–1966.[2]
- Professor of Mathematics, University of Auckland, 1966–1979.
- Head of Mathematics Department, University of Auckland, 1967–1973.
- Founded Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, 1980.
- Professor of Computer Science, University of Auckland, 1980–1988.
- Head of Applied and Computational Mathematics Unit, University of Auckland, 1989–1994, 1997–1998.
- Professor of Mathematics, University of Auckland, 1989–1998.
- Emeritus Professor, University of Auckland, 1999–present.
Awards
Butcher was awarded the Jones Medal from the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2010, for his "exceptional lifetime work on numerical methods for the solution of differential equations and leadership in the development of New Zealand mathematical sciences."[1] In 2011 he received the Van Wijngaarden Award.[3]
In the Queen's Birthday Honours 2013, Butcher was appointed a Officer of The New Zealand Order of Merit for services to mathematics.[4][5]
Publications
- Butcher, J. C. (1975), "A stability property of implicit Runge-Kutta methods", BIT, 15: 358–361, doi:10.1007/bf01931672.
- Butcher, John C. (2008), Numerical methods for ordinary differential equations (2nd ed.), John Wiley & Sons Ltd., ISBN 978-0-470-72335-7, MR 2401398.
References
- 1 2 The Royal Society of New Zealand (10 Nov 2010), 2010 Jones Medal Winner Professor Emeritus John Butcher (media release), retrieved 22 Mar 2012.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 April 2012. Retrieved 2011-12-30.
- ↑ "Van Wijngaarden Award 2011 for Éva Tardos and John Butcher" (Press release). Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica. 10 February 2011. Retrieved 12 February 2011.
- ↑ "The Queen's Birthday Honours 2013" (24 June 2013) 80 New Zealand Gazette 2171.
- ↑ "Queen's Birthday Honours List 2013". Honours List. Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet of New Zealand. 3 June 2013. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
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