Prof Donald Cecil Pack CBE FRSE FEIS FIMA (1920–2016) was a 20th-century British mathematician who worked on supersonic airflows.
He was born on 14 April 1920 at Higham Ferrers in Northamptonshire the son of John Pack and his wife, Minnie.
From 1944 to 1946 he served as a captain with the British Army on the Rhine and began working on supersonic airflows.
In 1953 he replaced Prof Albert Price in the 1812 Chair in Mathematics at the University of Strathclyde[4] (aged only 33) and was succeeded by Gary Roach in 1985.
[7] From 1974 to 1977 he was Chairman of the Committee of Inquiry into Truancy and Indiscipline in Schools in Scotland from which developed "The Pack Report" (named in his honour).