Walter J. Cunningham

Walter J. Cunningham was a specialist in the areas of systems theory, nonlinear analysis, computation and acoustics and he taught at Yale from 1946 to 1988. He was born on August 21, 1917, in Comanche, Texas, received his A.B. and A.M. degrees from the University of Texas and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Harvard. During World War II he helped train military officers in radar theory.

Professor Cunningham worked primarily on the mathematical analysis of engineering and taught generations of students about ordinary and partial differential, and nonlinear differential equations.