David Samuel Kinderlehrer (October 23, 1941,

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) is an American mathematician, who works on partial differential equations and related mathematics applied to materials in biology and physics. Kinderlehrer david

Kinderlehrer received in 1963 his bachelor's degree from MIT and in 1968 his Ph.D. from the

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under

Hans Lewy Hans Lewy (20 October 1904 – 23 August 1988) was a Jewish American mathematician, known for his work on partial differential equations and on the theory of functions of several complex variables. Life Lewy was born in Breslau, Silesia, on Oc ...

with thesis ''Minimal surfaces whose boundaries contain spikes''. He became in 1968 an instructor and in 1975 a full professor at the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

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. For the academic year 1971–1972 he was a visiting professor at the

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. In 2003 he became a professor at

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

. He works on

partial differential equation In mathematics, a partial differential equation (PDE) is an equation which imposes relations between the various partial derivatives of a Multivariable calculus, multivariable function. The function is often thought of as an "unknown" to be sol ...

s, minimal surfaces, and

variational inequalities In mathematics, a variational inequality is an inequality involving a functional, which has to be solved for all possible values of a given variable, belonging usually to a convex set. The mathematical theory of variational inequalities was initial ...

, with mathematical applications to the microstructure of biological materials, to solid state physics, and to materials science, including crystalline microstructure, liquid crystals, molecular mechanisms of intracellular transport, and models of ion transport. In 2002, he was the editor of the ''Hans Lewy Selecta'' published by Birkhäuser. His doctoral students include

Irene Fonseca Irene Maria Quintanilha Coelho da Fonseca is a Portuguese-American applied mathematician, the Kavčić-Moura University Professor of Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University, where she directs the Center for Nonlinear Analysis. Professional care ...

. In 2012, Kinderlehrer was elected a Fellow of the

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.AMS – List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
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he was an invited speaker (''Elliptic Variational Inequalities'') at the

International Mathematical Congress The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...

Selected publications

* * *with

Guido Stampacchia Guido Stampacchia (26 March 1922 – 27 April 1978) was an Italian mathematician, known for his work on the theory of variational inequalities, the calculus of variation and the theory of elliptic partial differential equations.. Life and academi ...

''An introduction to variational inequalities and their applications''
Academic Press 1980, SIAM Press 2000 *as editor with Jerald L. Ericksen and Constantine Dafermos
''Amorphous Polymers and Non-Newtonian Fluids''
Springer Verlag 1987 *as editor with J. L. Ericksen

Springer Verlag 1987 *as editor with Richard James, Mitchell Luskin, and J. L. Ericksen
''Microstructure and phase transition''
Springer Verlag 1993 *as editor with Mark J. Bowick, Govind Menon, and Charles Radin
''Mathematics and Materials''
American Mathematical Society 2017

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External links

Homepage at Carnegie Mellon University
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kinderlehrer, David 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians 1941 births Living people Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni University of Minnesota faculty Carnegie Mellon University faculty Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Educators from Allentown, Pennsylvania