Roland Glowinski (9 March 1937 – 26 January 2022) was a French-American mathematician. He obtained his PhD in 1970 from

Jacques-Louis Lions Jacques-Louis Lions (; 3 May 1928 – 17 May 2001) was a French mathematician who made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control, among other areas. He received the SIAM's John von Neumann Lecture pr ...

and was known for his work in

applied mathematics Applied mathematics is the application of mathematical methods by different fields such as physics, engineering, medicine, biology, finance, business, computer science, and industry. Thus, applied mathematics is a combination of mathematical s ...

, in particular numerical solution and applications of

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

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 ...

. He was a member of the

French Academy of Sciences The French Academy of Sciences (French: ''Académie des sciences'') is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV of France, Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French Scientific me ...

and held an endowed chair at the

University of Houston The University of Houston (UH) is a Public university, public research university in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1927, UH is a member of the University of Houston System and the List of universities in Texas by enrollment, university in Texas ...

from 1985. Glowinski wrote many books on the subject of mathematics. In 2012, he became a fellow of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

Selected publications

*with

and Raymond Trémolières: Numerical Analysis of variational inequalities, North Holland 198
2011 pbk edition
*Numerical methods for nonlinear variational problems, Springer Verlag 1984, 2008
2013 pbk edition
*with Michel Fortin: Augmented Lagrangian methods : applications to the numerical solution of boundary-value problems, North Holland 1983 *with Patrick Le Tallec
Augmented Lagrangian and operator-splitting methods in nonlinear mechanics
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 1989 * *with Jacques-Louis Lions and Jiwen He: Exact and approximate controllability for distributed parameter systems: a numerical approach, Cambridge University Press 2008

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