Calixto Calderón

Calixto Pedro Calderón is an Argentine mathematician who spent most of his career in the United States, chiefly at the University of Illinois Chicago. He was born in Mendoza, studied engineering and then mathematics at the University of Buenos Aires, and took his doctorate there under Alberto González Domínguez with a thesis on the multiple Weierstrass transform and the summability of multiple Hermite and Laguerre series. He is the half-brother of the analyst Alberto Calderón. His research ranges over harmonic analysis, ordinary and partial differential equations including the Navier-Stokes equations, probability, and mathematical biology, where he supervised work on tumour growth and leukaemia modelling. He also wrote on the history of mathematics, notably the Iberian calculatores of the sixteenth century. Among his students was Luis Caffarelli, who later won the Wolf Prize.