Author: Sarka Necasova

Jindrich Necas, Professor Emeritus of the Charles University in Prague, Distinguished Researcher Professor at the University of Northern Illinois, De Kalb, Doctor Honoris Causa at the Technical University of Dresden, a leading Czech mathematician and a world-class researcher in the field of partial differential equations. Author or coauthor of 12 monographs, 7 textbooks, and 185 research papers. High points of his research include his contribution to boundary regularity theory for linear systems his contributions to regularity theory of variational integrals, such as his 1977 solution of a long-standing question directly to Hilbert’s 19th problem his contributions to mathematical theory of the Navier-stokes equations, including his 1995 solution of an important problem raised in a classical 1934 paper by J. Leray. In 1998 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Czech Republic by President Václav Havel.