About Philip Rabinowitz
Lived 1926 – 2006 (aged 79). Philip Rabinowitz was an American mathematician.
Philip Rabinowitz (; August 14, 1926 – July 21, 2006) was an American and Israeli applied mathematician. He was best known for his work in numerical analysis, including his books A First Course in Numerical Analysis with Anthony Ralston and Methods of Numerical Integration with Philip J. Davis. He was the author of numerous articles on numerical computation.
He earned his Ph.D. in 1951 under Walter Gottschalk at the University of Pennsylvania. He worked for the American National Bureau of Standards and taught at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.
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American mathematician (1926–2006)
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Philip Rabinowitz was born on 14 August 1926 in Philadelphia.
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Philip Rabinowitz died on 21 July 2006 in Jerusalem.
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