lgnace Izaak Kolodner
Mathematician, scholar
Born Apr. 12, 1920, Warsaw, Poland; came to U.S., 1943; son of Israel and Brucha (Gornostajski); children: Richard D., Paul R., Eva Maria.
Education: University of Nancy (France), 1937-39; diploma (in electrical engineering), University of Grenoble (France), 1940; Ph.D. (in mathematics), New York University, New York City, 1950.
Career: research assistant to senior scientist, Courant Institute of Mathematics Sciences, New York University, 1946-56; prof. (mathematics), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1956-64; prof. (mathematics), 1964-90, head, Mathematics Department, 1964-72, prof. emeritus, 1990 -, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (PA); visiting prof., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1962, Stanford University (CA), 1964, New York University, 1969, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo (Uruguay), 1967, Technion, Haifa (Israel), 1973; adjunct prof., University of Pittsburgh, 1973-74, 1976-77; consultant.
Author: Integral Equations, Differential Equations, and Boundary Value Problems, 1972; lectures, Calculus in Banach Spaces, 1977, Elements of Analysis, 1985, Calculus of One Variable, 1989; over 50 research papers on differential equations, integral equations, modern analysis.
Member of: American Mathematical Society; Mathematical Association of America; Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics; American Association of University Professors (AAUP); Society for Natural Philosophy.
Honors: Fulbright fellow, Universidad de la Republica (Uruguay), 1967; national lecturer, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1960-61, 1980-83; grants, National Science Foundation (NSF), 1957-60, 1962-65, 1971-78, Office of Ordnance Research, 1957-61, Office of Naval Research, 1965-69.
Served with: U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers, sergeant, 1944-46.
Affiliation: Democrat.
Languages: English, Polish, French, German.
Hobbies: collecting stamps, photography.
Home: 307 S. Dithridge St. #806, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation,
New York, NY, 1996