Education
Gardner studied at Phillips Academy and Harvard, where he earned his baccalaureate in 1944. In 1953 he earned a Doctor of Philosophy from New York University, under the supervision of Fritz John.
mathematician university professor
Gardner studied at Phillips Academy and Harvard, where he earned his baccalaureate in 1944. In 1953 he earned a Doctor of Philosophy from New York University, under the supervision of Fritz John.
Thereafter he worked at National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Langley Field, the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. He was a mathematics professor at the University of Texas at Austin from 1967 to 1990, when he retired as professor emeritus. They developed a systematic approach to solving many nonlinear partial differential equations in a way similar to Fourier analysis for linear PDEs.
Clifford Gardner died September 25, 2013 in Austin, Texas.