Burton Wendroff

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Burton (Burt) Wendroff, (born March 10, 1930) an American mathematician and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Mexico and retired Laboratory Associate at the Theoretical Division, Group T7, Los Alamos National Laboratory. Along with co-author Tony Warnock, Burton Wendroff is primary author of the Chess program Lachex, which competed at various ACM Tournaments and World Computer Chess Championships in the 80s and early 90s.

=Selected Publications=

1958

 * Burton Wendroff (1958). Finite Difference Approximations to Solutions of Partial Differential Equations. Ph.D. thesis, New York University, advisor Peter Lax

1960 ...

 * Peter Lax, Burton Wendroff (1960). Systems of Conservation Laws. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, Wiley, Vol. 13, No. 2
 * Peter Lax, Burton Wendroff (1964). Difference Schemes for Hyperbolic Equations with High Order of Accuracy. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, Wiley, Vol. 17, No. 3
 * Burton Wendroff (1966). Theoretical Numerical Anaylsis. amazon
 * Burton Wendroff (1969). First Principles of Numerical Analysis. amazon
 * Burton Wendroff (1972). The Riemann problem for materials with nonconvex equations of state I: Isentropic Flow. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Vol. 38, No. 2, Elsevier
 * Burton Wendroff (1972). The Riemann problem for materials with nonconvex equations of state II: General Flow. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Vol. 38, No. 3, Elsevier

1980 ...

 * Burton Wendroff (1985). Attack Detection and Move Generation on the X-MP/48. ICCA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2
 * J. Doyne Farmer, Alan Lapedes, Norman Packard, Burton Wendroff (Ed.) (1986). Evolution, Games and Learning: Models for Adaptation in Machines and Nature. Proceedings of the Fifth Annual International Conference of the Center, Elsevier, amazon
 * Tony Warnock, Burton Wendroff (1988). Search Tables in Computer Chess. ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1
 * Burton Wendroff, Tony Warnock, Lewis Stiller, Dean Mayer, Ralph Brickner (1993). Bits and pieces: constructing chess endgame databases on parallel and vector architectures. Applied Numerical Mathematics, Vol. 12

2000 ...

 * Mikhail Shashkov, Burton Wendroff (2004). The repair paradigm and application to conservation laws. pdf

=External Links=
 * Burton Wendroff from Wikipedia
 * Burton Wendroff's ICGA Tournaments
 * Burton Wendroff from Mathematics Genealogy Project

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