William C. Davidon (1927-2013)
William Davidon
William Davidon
Professor Emeritus, Mathematics
Born on March 18, 1927 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Married to Maxine Libros of Brooklyn, New York.
Research
- Nonlinear Optimization, locating maxima and minima of differentiable functions
- Nonstandard Analysis, generalizing the intuitive notion of infinitesimals (PDF: English or French)
Education
- Purdue University, Major in Electrical Engineering, 1943-44 (no degree)
- B.S. in Physics, University of Chicago, 1947
- M.S. in Physics, University of Chicago, 1950
- Ph.D. in Physics, University of Chicago, 1954
Experience
Teaching
- Professor of Mathematics, Haverford College, 1981-91
- Professor of Physics, Haverford College, 1961-81
- Visiting Associate Professor, Univ. of Washington, 1958
Research
- Nordica Fellow, Trondheim University, Norway, 1976-77
- Fulbright-Hays Research Fellow, Aarhus University, Denmark, 1966-67
- Consultant, Argonne National Laboratory, 1961-1970
- Associate Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory, 1956-61
- Research Associate, Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies, University of Chicago, 1954-56
- Research Director, Nuclear Instrument and Chemical Corporation, Chicago, Illinois, 1948-54