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Professor Kurt Otto Friedrichs (1901 – 1983)

See the downloadable "Friedrichs" file for a memorial by Cathleen Synge Morawetz.

Selected Publications:

K. O. Friedrichs and J. J. Stoker, The non-linear boundary value problem of the buckled plate, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 25 (1939), pp. 535-540.

K.O. Friedrichs, “On the minimum buckling load for spherical shells”, Theodore von Kármán Anniversary Volume, Caltech, pp. 258-272, 1941

K.O. Friedrichs and J.J. Stoker, “The nonlinear boundary value problem of the buckled plate”, Am. J. Math., Vol. 63, 1941, pp. 839-888

Friedrichs, K.O. and Stoker, J.J., “Buckling of the circular plate beyond the critical thrust”, J. Appl. Mech., March 1942, p. A7

Friedrichs, K.O., “Lectures on Non-Linear Elasticity”, Mimeo. Notes by S. Schaaf, New York Univ., 1945

K. O. Friedrichs, “Kirchoff’s boundary conditions and the edge effect for elastic plates”, Proceedings of the third Symposium in Applied Mathematics, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1950, pp. 107-124

K.O. Friedrichs and R.F. Dressler, “A boundary layer theory for elastic bending of plates”, Comm. Pure Appl. Math., Vol. 14, 1961, pp. 1-33

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