Max Krook

Max Krook (died 4 August 1985) was an American mathematician and astrophysicst.^[1]

He is remembered for his contribution to the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook model.

Selected works

• Functions of a Complex Variable: Theory and Technique, by George F. Carrier, Max Krook, and Carl E. Pearson, SIAM, 2005, ISBN 0-89871-595-4 (first edition: McGraw-Hill, 1966, ISBN 0070100896).
• P. L. Bhatnagar, E. P. Gross, and M. Krook, "A Model for Collision Processes in Gases. I. Small Amplitude Processes in Charged and Neutral One-Component Systems", Phys. Rev. 94, 511-525 (1954).

References

1. ^ "MAX KROOK, 72, DIES, EX-PROFESSOR, The New York Times, 10 August 1985 (accessed 12 June 2008).

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Date of death	4 August 1985
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