Mathematician:Martin David Kruskal

Mathematician

American mathematician and physicist.

Made fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, ranging from plasma physics to general relativity and from nonlinear analysis to asymptotic analysis.

His most celebrated contribution was in the theory of solitons.

The brother of William Henry Kruskal and Joseph Bernard Kruskal.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: September 28, 1925 in New York City, New York, US
• Died: December 26, 2006 in Princeton, New Jersey, US

Theorems and Definitions

• Kruskal-Szekeres Coordinates (with George Szekeres)
• Kruskal-Shafranov Instability (with Vitaly Dmitrievich Shafranov)
• Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal Modes (with Ira Borah Bernstein and John Morgan Greene)
• Kruskal-Schwarzchild Instability (with Martin Schwarzschild)
• Kruskal Count

Definitions of concepts named for Martin David Kruskal can be found here.

Publications

• 1963: Asymptotology

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Martin David Kruskal": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive