David Gilbarg(17 September 1918,Boston, Massachusetts– 20 April 2001,Palo Alto, California) was an American mathematician, and a professor emeritus atStanford University.

David Gilbarg

He completed hisPh.D.atIndiana Universityin 1941; his dissertation, titledOn the Structure of the group ofp-adicl-units,was written under the supervision ofEmil Artin.

Gilbarg was co-author, together with his studentNeil Trudinger,of the bookElliptic Partial Differential Equations of Second Order.Besides Trudinger, Gilbarg's doctoral students includeJerald EricksenandJames Serrin.

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