Keith William Morton

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Keith William Morton (born 28 May 1930, Ipswich, Suffolk, England) is a British mathematician working on partial differential equations, and their numerical analysis.

He obtained his Ph.D. in 1964 under the supervision of Harold Grad at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. [1]

In 2010, he was awarded the De Morgan Medal. [2]

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References

  1. "The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Keith Morton". Archived from the original on 7 May 2015. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
  2. "List of LMS prize winners | London Mathematical Society". Lms.ac.uk. 5 November 2015. Retrieved 19 June 2016.