[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 52 (Tuesday, March 21, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E646-E647]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


         PROF. HERBERT BISHOP KELLER, 70TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION

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                        HON. CARLOS J. MOORHEAD

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, March 21, 1995
  Mr. MOORHEAD, Mr. Speaker, on June 19 of this year, Dr. Herbert 
Bishop Keller will be 70 years old. Dr. Keller is professor of applied 
mathematics at the California Institute of Technology. His fundamental 
contributions to the field of numerical analysis have played a crucial 
role in the advancement of science and engineering in this century.
  For example, Dr. Keller developed many of the methods which 
scientists and engineers have used for years to solve complex problems 
with computers. These include the box scheme for solving boundary layer 
problems in the aircraft industry; the method of multiple shooting, to 
solve ordinary differential equations; and the path-following methods, 
for solving bifurcation problems in all fields of science.
  He is the coauthor, with Eugene Isaacson, of the text ``Analysis of 
Numerical Methods,'' which is a classic in the field and has been 
studied by generations of students. He is also the author of two 
monographs on the solution of two-point boundary-value problems, and of 
hundreds of research articles.
  Dr. Keller was born in Paterson, NJ. He served in the U.S. Navy 
during World War II as a lieutenant junior grade. He obtained a 
bachelor's degree in electronics from the Georgia Institute of 
Technology in 1945. He received an M.S. in mathematics from New York 
University in 1948 and his Ph.D. from the same institution in 1954. 
Concurrently, he was in charge of the math department at Sarah Lawrence 
College.
  In 1961 after a rapid ascent through the ranks, Dr. Keller became 
professor of applied mathematics at the Courant Institute of 
Mathematical Sciences at New York University. During this time, he also 
served as associate director of the Atomic Energy Commission Computing 
and Applied Mathematics Center, which was located at New York 
University.
  In 1967, Dr. Keller joined the finest institution of higher learning 
in the world when he became a professor of applied mathematics at the 
California Institute of Technology, a position he holds to this day. 
Currently, he is director of the Caltech branch of the Center for 
Research on Parallel Computing, an endeavor sponsored by the National 
Science Foundation.
  Professor Keller was extraordinarily active as a member of many 
scientific societies. In 1975-76, he served as president of the Society 
for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the world's leading society of 
applied mathematicians. He also served on 6 national committees and 
held editorial positions on 12 leading scientific journals.
  The scientific community has expressed its admiration for Professor 
Keller by bestowing upon him some of its most prestigious awards. He is 
a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the 
American Association for Arts and Sciences, and he was a Guggenheim 
fellow. Recently, he was the distinguished visiting fellow at Christ's 
College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. The Society for 
Industrial and Applied Mathematics awarded him the von Karman prize in 
1994.
  Mr. Speaker, the scientific legacy of Professor Keller is ensured 
through his own work, through the work of the 28 students who earned 
their Ph.D. degrees under his supervision, as well as through the 
hundreds of graduate and undergraduate students whom he has taught 
throughout the years.
  Today, I would like my colleagues in the U.S. House of 
Representatives to join with me and the scientific community in 
expressing our thanks and gratitude to Professor Keller for his 
[[Page E647]] leadership, his example, and his many contributions, and 
to wish him a very happy birthday.


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