Burton Wendroff

Burton Wendroff, born on March 10, 1930, is an American applied mathematician known for developing numerical methods for hyperbolic partial differential equations. The Lax-Wendroff method, which he devised with Peter Lax, is named for both of them. He studied mathematics and physics at New York University, took a master's degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1952, and then joined Los Alamos National Laboratory as a staff member. He earned his doctorate at New York University in 1958 under Peter Lax and was a professor at the University of Denver from 1966 to 1973. His research also produced the two-dimensional HLLE Riemann solver and early convergence studies of the finite element method. With Tony Warnock he wrote the chess program Lachex, which competed at the World Computer Chess Championships in Cologne in 1986 and Madrid in 1992.