Ivar Stakgold

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]

• 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

• 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

• Mott-Smith Trophy (1) 1958

• 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]

• 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]

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