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D-Index
59
Citations
40509
World Ranking
569
National Ranking
292

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - SIAM Fellow For contributions to the theory of splines and other problems related to the approximation of functions.
  • 2003 - US President's National Medal of Science "For his fundamental contriutions to mathematics that strongly assisted numerical computation in science and engineering.", Presented by President George W. Bush in a White House East Room ceremony on March 14, 2005.
  • 1997 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1996 - John von Neumann Lecturer
  • 1993 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to numerical analysis and methods in particular numerical tools used in computer-aided design.
  • 1987 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Carl de Boor is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily lies in the field of engineering, with a specific focus on computational mechanics.

The scientist's recent publication record includes a paper titled Mini-Workshop: Interpolation, Approximation, and Algebra, published in 2023 in the Oberwolfach Reports journal.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Carl de Boor are:

  • Tomas Sauer
  • Henry K. Schenck
  • Tatyana Sorokina

The main topics of their work include advanced numerical analysis techniques.

Carl de Boor has received several notable awards over the years, including:

  • SIAM Fellow (2009) - For contributions to the theory of splines and other problems related to the approximation of functions.
  • US President's National Medal of Science (2003) - "For his fundamental contributions to mathematics that strongly assisted numerical computation in science and engineering," presented by President George W. Bush in a White House East Room ceremony on March 14, 2005.
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1997)
  • John von Neumann Lecturer (1996)
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering (1993) - For contributions to numerical analysis and methods, in particular numerical tools used in computer-aided design.
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1987)

Best Publications

  • A practical guide to splines

    Carl R. de Boor

  • Elementary Numerical Analysis: An Algorithmic Approach

    Samuel Daniel Conte;Carl W. De Boor

  • On calculating with B-splines

    Carl de Boor

  • Collocation at Gaussian Points

    Carl de Boor;Blair Swartz

  • Box Splines

    Carl de Boor;Klaus Höllig;Sherman Riemenschneider

  • Approximation from shift-invariant subspaces of $L\sb 2(old R\sp d)$

    Carl de Boor;Ronald A. DeVore;Amos Ron

  • The structure of finitely generated shift-invariant spaces in L2 (Rd)

    Carl De Boor;Ronald A. DeVore;Amos Ron

  • Bicubic Spline Interpolation

    Carl de Boor

  • High accuracy geometric Hermite interpolation

    Carl De Boor;Klaus Höllig;Malcolm Sabin

  • Splines as linear combinations of B-splines. A Survey

    Carl De Boor

  • Good approximation by splines with variable knots. II

    Carl de Boor

  • On the Construction of Multivariate (pre) Wavelets

    Carl de Boor;Ronald A. DeVore;Amos Ron

  • Package for Calculating with B-Splines.

    Carl de Boor

  • On Multivariate Polynomial Interpolation

    Carl De Boor;Amos Ron

  • Approximation from Shift-Invariant Subspaces of L 2 (ℝ d )

    Carl de Boor;Ronald A. Devore;Amos Ron

  • The numerically stable reconstruction of a Jacobi matrix from spectral data

    Carl Boor;Gene H. Golub

  • Computational aspects of polynomial interpolation in several variables

    Carl de Boor;Amos Ron

  • On splines and their minimum properties

    Carl de Boor;Robert E. Lynch;G. Birkhoff

  • A Practical Guide to Splines.

    Carl de Boor

  • Spline models for observational data: G. Wahba, CBMS 59, SIAM, 1990, 169 pp

    Carl de Boor

  • Notes: Multivariate polynomial interpolation: Aitken-Neville sets and generalized principal lattices

    Carl de Boor

Frequent Co-Authors

Amos Ron
Amos Ron University of Wisconsin–Madison
Allan Pinkus
Allan Pinkus Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
John R. Rice
John R. Rice Purdue University West Lafayette
Gene H. Golub
Gene H. Golub Stanford University
Ronald A. DeVore
Ronald A. DeVore Texas A&M University
Zuowei Shen
Zuowei Shen National University of Singapore
Nira Dyn
Nira Dyn Tel Aviv University
Garrett Birkhoff
Garrett Birkhoff Harvard University
Larry L. Schumaker
Larry L. Schumaker Vanderbilt University
Edward B. Saff
Edward B. Saff Vanderbilt University

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