Background
BUTCHER, John was born on March 31, 1933 in Auckland. Son of Charles Hastings Butcher and Alice Lilac Cornwall (nee Richards) Butcher.
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BUTCHER, John was born on March 31, 1933 in Auckland. Son of Charles Hastings Butcher and Alice Lilac Cornwall (nee Richards) Butcher.
Bachelor of Science U. New Zealand, Auckland, 1955, Master of Science, 1956. Doctor of Philosophy U. Sydney, Australia, 1961, Doctor of Science, 1971. Lecturer U. Sydney, 1959-1961.
Senior lecturer U. Canterbury, New Zealand, 1961-1964. Computer scientist Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, California, 1965-1966. Professor mathematics U. Auckland, 1966-1979, 89^, professor computer science, 1980-1988.
Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, University of Sydney 1959-1961. Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Canterbury 1962-1964. Staff; Professor, of Mathematics, University of Auckland 1966-1979, of Computer Science 1980-1988, of Math, and Head, Applied Computational Mathematics Unit since 1989.
Fellow Institute of Math, and its Applications.
Fellow Institute Mathematics and Its Applications, Royal Society New Zealand. Member New Zealand Mathematics Society (president 1975-1976, award for mathematics research 1991), American Mathematics Society, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Association for Computing Machinery.
Married 1st Patricia Frances Nicolas in 1957 (divorced in 1989), two son one daughter. Married 2nd Jennifer Ann Wright (nee Bowman).