Preface

Arieh Iserles was born in Poland, on September 2, 1947. He was educated in Israel, where he received BSc and MSc degrees from the Hebrew University and obtained his PhD degree under the supervision of Giacomo Della Riccia at Ben Gurion University with the dissertation Numerical Solution of Stiff Differential Equations (1978). He first arrived in Cambridge, in 1978 and has remained there ever since. He has successively been Junior and Senior Research Fellow at King's College, and Lecturer (1987) and Professor (1999) at Cambridge University where he holds a chair in Numerical Analysis and Differential Equations. Arieh has received many honours, in particuluar the Lars Onsager Medal (1999) from the Nowegian University of Science and Technology and the David G. Crighton Medal (2012) from the London Mathematical Society and the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. He holds Honorary Professorships at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, since 2002 and Jilin University, Changchun, since 2004.

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