Remembering Philip Rabinowitz

Abstract

The applied mathematician and numerical analyst Philip (Phil, Pinchas, Pinny) Rabinowitz was born in Philadelphia on August 14, 1926, and passed away on July 21, 2006, in Jerusalem. Philip Davis recounts reminiscences from his early scientific career; while Aviezri Fraenkel relates some of his activities at the Weizmann Institute of Science, where he began work in 1955, as well as snapshots from earlier periods.