Richard Meyer (mathematician)
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Richard Ernst Meyer (23 March 1919 – 16 January 2008) was a mathematician and engineer .
Born in Berlin , Germany , Meyer received his PhD in aeronautical engineering from ETH Zürich in 1946. He worked at the University of Manchester and in 1953, he got a job as a senior lecturer in aeronautical engineering at the University of Sydney . He studied turbines, which led him to the research of supersonic aeronautics and the theory of characteristics. Meyer did both theoretical and experimental research; he set up a supersonic laboratory in Australia . He was elected into the Australian Academy of Science in 1956.
In 1957, Meyer moved to the department of applied mathematics at Brown University . By this time, he had also become interested in the theory of water waves . Additionally, he looked into theoretical aspects of hyperbolic and singular partial differential equations and asymptotics . Meyer became a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1964, where he worked until he was named professor emeritus in 1994.
Meyer died on 16 January 2008.
References
- Dickey, R. Wayne; Parter, Seymour; Rabinowitz, Paul; Slemrod, Marshall (2008), "Obituary: Richard E. Meyer", SIAM News , 41 (3): 2 . online version
- "Obituary: Richard Meyer" (PDF) , Australian Academy of Science Newsletter (71): 11, 2008, archived from the original (PDF) on 5 March 2016 , retrieved 11 August 2015 .
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