Charles Robert Hadlock

Charles Robert Hadlock (born April 19, 1947, in Brooklyn,[1] New York City) is an American applied mathematician, professor emeritus of mathematical sciences, and consultant in risk analysis. In 1985 he was awarded the inaugural Beckenbach Book Prize for his 1975 book Field theory and its classical problems.[2] In July 2019 he was a George Póya Lecturer.[3][4]

  1. ^ Hadlock, Charles Robert (1970). Singular perturbations of a class of two point boundary value problems arising in optimal control. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (biographical information from preface to Ph.D. thesis)
  2. ^ Propp, James (January 1985). "MAA Awards, News & Letters". Mathematics Magazine. 58 (1): 57. doi:10.1080/0025570X.1985.11977151.
  3. ^ "Pólya Lectures | Mathematical Association of America".
  4. ^ "Charles Hadlock, George Pólya Lecturer at the Mathematical Association of America". Leadar.