George J. Minty

His father emigrated, after WW I, from Scotland to work in Detroit's automotive industry as a tool and die maker.

After service in the US Army Signal Corps at Fort Monmouth,[2] he became in 1956 a graduate student in mathematics at the University of Michigan.

[3] There he received in 1959 his PhD with thesis Integrability Conditions for Vector Fields in Banach Spaces supervised by Erich Rothe.

[5] His first job out of grad school was as an applied mathematician at the General Motors Research Laboratory in Detroit, Michigan, and it was here that he first melded the discrete and the continuous to obtain significant results.

[2]Minty joined the University of Michigan faculty and was eventually promoted to associate professor before he resigned in 1965.