Steven Orszag
| Steven Orszag | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Steven Alan Orszag February 27, 1943 New York, New York |
| Died | May 1, 2011 (aged 68) |
| Education | BS, M.I.T., 1962 postgrad. St. John's College, Cambridge U., England, 1962–1963 PhD, Princeton U., 1966. (advisor Martin David Kruskal) |
| Occupation | Applied mathematician, educator |
| Known for | Spectral method |
| Spouse(s) | Reba Karp (m. June 21, 1964) |
| Children | J. Michael Orszag Peter Richard Orszag Jonathan Marc Orszag |
| Parent(s) | Joseph and Rose Orszag. |
| Awards | A.P. Sloan Found. fellow, 1970–1974 Guggenheim fellow, 1989–1990 |
Steven Alan Orszag (February 27, 1943 – May 1, 2011) was an American mathematician.
Orszag was born to a Jewish family in Manhattan, the son of Joseph Orszag, a lawyer. Orszag's paternal grandparents were emigrants from Hungary. Orszag was raised in Forest Hills, Queens and graduated from Forest Hills High School. In 1962, at the age of 19, he graduated with a B.S. in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was a member of the Pi Lambda Phi Fraternity. He did post graduate study at Cambridge University and in 1966 graduated with a Ph.D. in astrophysics from Princeton University. His thesis adviser was Martin David Kruskal. In 1967, Orszag was appointed as a professor of applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he collaborated with Carl M. Bender and was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study. In 1984, he was appointed Forrest E Hamrick Professor of Engineering. In 1988, he accepted a position at Yale University and in 2000, he was named the Percey F. Smith Professor of Mathematics at Yale University from 2000 until his death in 2011.
Orszag has won numerous awards including Sloan Fellowship and Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Fluid and Plasmadynamics Award, the Otto Laporte Award of the American Physical Society, and the Society of Engineering Science's G. I. Taylor Medal.
...
Wikipedia