mathematician computer scientist
Raised in Brooklyn, New York, he earned Bachelor of Arts (1952), Master of Surgery (1953) and Doctor of Philosophy (1956) from the Courant Institute at New York University, the latter on the thesis The Asymptotic Theory of Solutions of U + (K2)U = 0 advised by Joseph Keller.
He then worked for the mathematics department at Bell Labs (1956-1958) before joining International Business Machines Corporation Research (1961). After retirement from International Business Machines Corporation, he joined the computer science faculty at Yale University (1989) as research faculty. He also held professor affiliations at California Institute of Technology (1963), Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1968), Yale University (1973), University of Paris-Sud (1974), City University of New York (since 1966) and New York University (1970-1973).
Miranker"s work includes articles and books on stiff differential equations, interval arithmetic, analog computing, and neural networks and the modeling of consciousness.
Over the course of his life, Willard Miranker painted ~4000 watercolors/aquarelles and ~200 oil paintings, many of which are displayed online. He exhibited internationally in New York City, Paris and Bonn.
