John C. Butcher

John C. Butcher (born 31 March 1933) is a mathematician who specialises in numerical methods for the solution of ordinary differential equations. Butcher works on multistage methods for initial value problems, such as Runge-Kutta and general linear methods.

More recently, he is investigating a new type of method with stability identical to that of a Runge-Kutta method.

Positions held

* Lecturer, University of Sydney, 1959–1961.
* Senior Lecturer, University of Canterbury, 1961–1964.
* Computer Scientist, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, 1965–1966.
* Professor of Mathematics, University of Auckland, 1966–1979.
* Head of Mathematics Department, University of Auckland, 1967–1973.
* Founded Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, 1980.
* Professor of Computer Science, University of Auckland, 1980–1988.
* Head of Applied and Computational Mathematics Unit, University of Auckland, 1989–1994, 1997–1998.
* Professor of Mathematics, University of Auckland, 1989–1998.
* Honorary Research Professor, 1999–.

Publications

*J. C. Butcher, "Numerical methods for ordinary differential equations", ISBN 0471967580

External links

* [http://www.math.auckland.ac.nz/~butcher/ Home page]