Background
Gautschi, Walter was born on December 11, 1927 in Basel, Switzerland. Came to the United States, 1955, naturalized, 1961. Son of Hans and Margrit Eugster Gautschi.
Gautschi, Walter was born on December 11, 1927 in Basel, Switzerland. Came to the United States, 1955, naturalized, 1961. Son of Hans and Margrit Eugster Gautschi.
Born in Basel, he has a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Basel on the thesis Analyse graphischer Integrationsmethoden advised by Alexander Ostrowski and Andreas Speiser (1953).
He has authored over 200 papers in his area and published two books. Since then, he did postdoctoral work as a Janggen-Pöhn Research Fellow at the Istituto Nazionale per le Applicazioni del Calcolo in Rome (1954) and at the Harvard Computation Laboratory (1955). He had positions at National Bureau of Standards (1956–59), the American University in Washington D.C., the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1959–63) before joining Purdue University where he has worked since (1963-2000) and now being professor emeritus.
Visiting, he has been Fulbright Scholar at the Technical University of Munich (1970), University of Wisconsin–Madison (1976), Argonne National Laboratory, the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, ETH Zurich (1996-2001), the University of Padova (1997), and the University of Basel (2000).
Member American Mathematics Society, Mathematics Association American, Society Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Schweizerische Mathematische Gesellschaft, Bavarian Academy of Sciences (foreign 2001), Turin Academy of Sciences (foreign 2001).
Married Erika Wuest, April 8, 1960. Children: Thomas, Theresa, Doris, Caroline.
