Earl A. Coddington

Earl Alexander Coddington (1920–1991) was an American mathematician and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and an author whose textbook on differential equations, written jointly with Norman Levinson is considered a classic and is used in universities all over the world.

Earl A. Coddington
Born(1920-12-16)December 16, 1920
Washington, D.C.
DiedNovember 11, 1991(1991-11-11) (aged 70)
Los Angeles, California
NationalityAmerican
Alma materJohns Hopkins University
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Doctoral advisorFrancis D. Murnaghan

Life

He was born on December 16, 1920 in Washington, DC.[1][2] From the Johns Hopkins University, he received a PhD[3] in 1948. His dissertation was On the Equations Governing the Stability of the Laminar Boundary Layer in a Compressible Fluid.[4]

He died on November 11, 1991 in Los Angeles, California.[1][2]

Career

He was a professor of mathematics at UCLA.[5][6] He came to the department about 1950, as did other professors who helped to build the department into one of the top university mathematics departments. Others who arrived about that time that also helped to build the department were Raymond Redheffer, Ernst Straus, Robert Steinberg, Richard Arens, and Philip Curtis.[7] He was also a leader of the Citizens for California Higher Education the chair of the American Association of University Professors for the campus. He organized against Governor Ronald Reagan's plan to reduce spending to universities and increase tuition.[6]

Coddington was a visiting scholar at Princeton University and taught at the University of Copenhagen and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[3] He frequently collaborated with Norman Levinson. His textbook on differential equations written with Levinson (colloquially referred to as Coddington–Levinson) is now considered a classic and is used in universities all over the world.

Bibliography
Books[8][9]
  • M. L. Cartwright; E. A. Coddington; H. F. DeBaggis; N. Levinson; J. McCarthy; H. L. Turrittin (1952). S. Lefschetz (ed.). Contributions to the Theory of Nonlinear Oscillations (AM-29). Vol. II. Princeton University Press. JSTOR j.ctt1bgz9z7.1.
  • Earl A. Coddington; Norman Levinson (1955). Theory of Ordinary Differential Equations. New York: McGraw-Hill. LCCN 54011260.
  • Earl A. Coddington (1961). An Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. LCCN 61015333.
  • Earl A. Coddington (1973). Extension theory of formally normal and symmetric subspaces. Providence: American Mathematical Society. ISBN 0-8218-1834-1.
  • Earl A. Coddington; Hendrik S.V. de Snoo (1981). Regular Boundary Value Problems Associated with Pairs of Ordinary Differential Expressions. Berlin; New York: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0-387-10706-1.
  • Earl A. Coddington; Robert Carlson (1997). Linear Ordinary Differential Equations. Philadelphia: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. ISBN 0-89871-388-9.

References
  1. "Earl A. Coddington", Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration, Earl A. Coddington. Born 16 Dec 1920, Died 11 Nov 1991, Social Security Card issued before 1951 in District of Columbia
  2. "Earl A. Coddington", State of California. California Death Index, 1940–1997. Sacramento, CA, USA: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics
  3. "Visiting Scholars – Mathematics". Princeton Alumni Weekly. Princeton Alumni Weekly. 1957. p. 12. PRNC:32101081976928.
  4. "Conferring of Degrees At the Close of the Seventy-Second Academic Year" (PDF). The Johns Hopkins University. June 8, 1948. Retrieved June 19, 2017.
  5. "Civil Liberties Union to Sponsor Forum". The Los Angeles Times. March 12, 1967. p. 585. Retrieved June 19, 2017 – via newspapers.com.
  6. William Trombley (May 15, 1967). "Professors Taking Up Battle Against Reagan". The Los Angeles Times. p. 113. Retrieved June 19, 2017 – via newspapers.com.
  7. "Raymond Redheffer". Senate, University of California. Retrieved June 19, 2017.
  8. "Coddington, Earl A. (1920–)". Trove, National Library of Australia. June 19, 2017.
  9. "Earl A. Coddington". Library of Congress. Retrieved June 20, 2017.
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