Ivar Stakgold

Ivar Stakgold (December 13, 1925 – May 29, 2018)^[1] was a Norwegian-born American academic mathematician and bridge player from Newark, Delaware.^[2] As the sole author of two books he specialized in boundary value problems (LCSH).^[3][4]

Life

Stakgold was born in Oslo, Norway to parents with Russian-Jewish heritage.^[5][6] He studied applied mathematics at Harvard University and earned the Ph.D. in 1949 with a dissertation, The Cauchy Relations In A Molecular Theory of Elasticity, under Léon Nicolas Brillouin.^[7] He was professor emeritus of mathematical sciences at the University of Delaware and a researcher at the University of California, San Diego.^[8] He was a former president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).^[3]

Books

By Stakgold

• Boundary Value Problems of Mathematical Physics, 2 vols. (Macmillan, 1967), Macmillan series in advanced mathematics and theoretical physics, LCCN 67-10304; reprint 2000, SIAM Classics in applied mathematics, no. 29^[4]
• Nonlinear Problems in the Physical Sciences and Biology: proceedings of a Battelle Summer Institute, Seattle, July 3–28, 1972, eds. Stakgold and others (Springer-Verlag, 1973), LCCN 73-78428
• Green's Functions and Boundary Value Problems (Wiley, 1979); 2nd ed. 1998; 3rd ed. 2011, Stakgold and Michael J. Holst^[3]
• Analytical and Computational Methods in Scattering and Applied Mathematics, eds. Fadil Santosa and Stakgold (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2000) – "A volume to the memory of Ralph Ellis Kleinman", LCCN 99-87683

Other

• Nonlinear Problems in Applied Mathematics: in honor of Ivar Stakgold on his 70th birthday, eds. T.S. Angell and others (Philadelphia:SIAM, 1996), LCCN 96-112982

Bridge accomplishments

Awards

• Mott-Smith Trophy (1) 1958

Wins

• North American Bridge Championships (5)
  • Silodor Open Pairs (1) 1958 ^[9]
  • Vanderbilt (1) 1958 ^[10]
  • Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 1969 ^[11]
  • Reisinger (1) 1958 ^[12]
  • Spingold (1) 1962 ^[13]

Runners-up

• Bermuda Bowl (1) 1959
• North American Bridge Championships
  • Silodor Open Pairs (1) 1963 ^[9]
  • Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams (1) 1957 ^[14]
  • Spingold (1) 1958 ^[13]

References

1. "Obituary: Ivar Stakgold". The San Diego Union Tribune. San Diego, California. 12 June 2018. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
2. Francis, Henry G.; Truscott, Alan F.; Francis, Dorthy A., eds. (1994). The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge (5th ed.). Memphis, TN: American Contract Bridge League. p. 746. ISBN 0-943855-48-9. LCCN 96188639.
3. "Contributor biographical information for Green's functions and boundary value problems / Ivar Stakgold". Library of Congress. [1998?]. Retrieved 2014-11-04.
    With more information linked.
4. "Publisher description for Boundary value problems of mathematical physics / Ivar Stakgold". Library of Congress. [2000]. Retrieved 2014-11-04.
    With more information linked.
5. "Ivar Stakgold Obituary (1925 - 2018) - San Diego, Ca, CA - San Diego Union-Tribune". Legacy.com.
6. American Men & Women of Science: Q-S. Thomson Gale. 2003. p. 943. ISBN 0787665290.
7. "Ivar Stakgold". Mathematics Genealogy Project. North Dakota State University. Retrieved 2014-11-04.
8. "CCoM People Faculty". Center for Computational Mathematics. University of California, San Diego. Retrieved 2024-06-19.
9. "Silodor Open Pairs Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-07-27. p. 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
10. "Vanderbilt Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-03-24. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
11. "Mixed BAM Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-07-24. p. 14. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
12. "Reisinger Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2013-12-06. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
13. "Spingold Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-07-21. p. 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
14. "Mitchell BAM Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2013-12-01. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-10-17.

External links

• "International record for Ivar Stakgold". World Bridge Federation.
• Ivar Stakgold at Library of Congress, with 8 library catalog records