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American mathematician
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Male
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Birth:
17 September 1918(Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
Death:
20 April 2001(Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, California, U.S.A.)
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Biography
David Gilbarg (17 September 1918, Boston, Massachusetts – 20 April 2001, Palo Alto, California) was an American mathematician, and a professor emeritus at Stanford University.
Gilbarg was co-author, together with his student Neil Trudinger, of the book Elliptic Partial Differential Equations of Second Order. Besides Trudinger, Gilbarg's doctoral students include Jerald Ericksen and James Serrin.