David Gilbarg (17 September 1918, Boston, Massachusetts – 20 April 2001,

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) was an American mathematician, and a professor emeritus at

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. He completed his

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in 1941; his dissertation, titled ''On the Structure of the group of ''p''-adic ''l''-units'', was written under the supervision of

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. Gilbarg was co-author, together with his student

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, of the book ''Elliptic Partial Differential Equations of Second Order''. Besides Trudinger, Gilbarg's doctoral students include

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and

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References

Obituary
Stanford News Service, May 1, 2001.
Memorial Resolution
by

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Richard Schoen Richard Melvin Schoen (born October 23, 1950) is an American mathematician known for his work in differential geometry and geometric analysis. He is best known for the resolution of the Yamabe problem in 1984. Career Born in Celina, Ohio, and a 1 ...

, and Brian White.
McTutor biography
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