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{{short description|American mathematician}}
'''Willard L. Miranker''' (March 8, 1932 &ndash; April 28, 2011) was an American mathematician and computer scientist, known for his contributions to [[applied mathematics]] and [[numerical mathematics]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Willard L. Miranker |url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91758846 |publisher=Findagrave |access-date=2015-09-21}}</ref>
==Early life and education==
Miranker was raised in Brooklyn, New York. He received a bachelor of arts in 1952, master of science in 1953 and Ph.D. in 1957 all in mathematics from the [[Courant Institute]] at [[New York University]]. His doctoral thesis ''The Asymptotic Theory of Solutions of U + (K<sup>2</sup>)U = 0'' was advised by [[Joseph Keller]].
==Career==
===Mathematics===
Upon graduating from New York University, he worked for the mathematics department at [[Bell Labs]] (1956&ndash;1958) before joining [[IBM Research]] (1961). Upon retirement from IBM, he joined the computer science faculty at [[Yale University]] (1989) as research faculty.
He also held professor affiliations at [[California Institute of Technology]] (1963), [[City University of New York]] (1966&ndash;1967), [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]] (1968), [[New York University]] (1970&ndash;1973), [[Yale University]] (1973) and [[University of Paris-Sud]] (1974).
Miranker's work<ref>Willard L. Miranker, 60 years, Computing 48:1-3, 1992 [https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02241702 fulltext]</ref> includes articles and books on [[stiff differential equation]]s,<ref>Miranker, Willard L., Numerical Methods for Stiff Equations And Singular Perturbation Problems, D. Reidel Publishing Co., Dordrecht-Boston, Mass., 1981. {{ISBN|90-277-1107-0}}</ref> [[interval arithmetic]],<ref>{{cite book |author1-first=Ulrich W. |author1-last=Kulisch |author1-link=Ulrich W. Kulisch |author2-first=Willard L. |author2-last=Miranker |author2-link=Willard L. Miranker |date=1981 |edition=1 |title=Computer arithmetic in theory and practice |editor-first=Werner |editor-last=Rheinboldt |series=Computer Science and Applied Mathematics |publisher=[[Academic Press, Inc.]] |location=New York, United States |isbn=978-0-12-428650-4}}</ref> [[analog computer|analog computing]], and [[neural network]]s and the modeling of [[consciousness]].
===Painting===
Miranker was also an accomplished and prolific painter.  Over the course of his life, Willard Miranker painted ~4000 watercolors/aquarelles and ~200 oil paintings, many of which are [http://willmiranker.zenfolio.com/blog displayed online]. He exhibited internationally in New York City, Paris and [[Bonn]].<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE7DC1E3CF93AA1575BC0A965958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all The Guide] from [[The New York Times]] (August 29, 1993).</ref>
==Awards==
*Fellow of the [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]]
==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://willmiranker.zenfolio.com/blog Paintings by Will Miranker]
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*[http://www.cs.yale.edu/people/miranker.html short page] at [[Yale University]]
*FindaGrave entry [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=miranker&GSmid=46879782&GRid=91758846&]
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