Background
His father Hermenegild Arved Flaschka (1915 - ) taught Chemistry at Georgia Technology
mathematician university professor
His father Hermenegild Arved Flaschka (1915 - ) taught Chemistry at Georgia Technology
Hermann graduated from Druid Hills High School with the class of 1962 and received his Bachelor"s degree at Georgia Technical in 1967.
He"s been living in the United States of America since his family immigrated when he was a teenager. They lived in Atlanta, Georgia. He received his Doctor of Philosophy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970. His advisor was Gilbert Strang and the title of his thesis Asymptotic Expansions and Hyperbolic Equations with Multiple Characteristics.
He then worked as post-doc at the Carnegie Mellon University until 1972.
Currently he is Professor at the University of Arizona. He has lectured as visiting professor at several institutions, among them the Clarkson University (1978/79), the Kyoto RIMS (1980/81) and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (2002).
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
American Mathematical Society.