David J. Kaup

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David James Kaup (born April 8, 1939 in Marionville , Lawrence County , Missouri ) is an American applied mathematician and physicist , known for his contributions to the theory of solitons and other nonlinear waves. He is a professor at the University of Central Florida .

David Kaup studied physics at the University of Oklahoma with a bachelor's degree in 1960 and a master's degree in 1962 and received his doctorate in physics from the University of Maryland in College Park in 1967 with David Mandeen Zipoy (The Klein-Gordon Geon). In 1967 he became an assistant professor and later professor at Clarkson University . From 1987 he was there in addition to his professorship for mathematics and physics professor of computer science.

In 1980/81 he was a scientist at Dynamics Technology and in 1981 a visiting scientist in geophysics at the University of California, Los Angeles . In 1983 he was a consultant at Varian Associates and in 1987 visiting professor in Montpellier . He is known for making some significant contributions to Inverse Scattering Transformation (IST) in the early 1970s (with Mark J. Ablowitz , Harvey Segur, and Alan C. Newell ).

He has been married since 1982 and has three children.

Fonts

  • with M. Ablowitz, AC Newell, H. Segur: The inverse scattering transform-Fourier analysis for nonlinear problems , Stud. Appl. Math., Vol. 53, 1974, pp. 249-315
  • with M. Ablowitz, AC Newell, H. Segur: Method for Solving the Sine-Gordon Equation , Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 30, 1973, pp. 1262-1264
  • The legacy of the IST, in Jerry Bona, Roy Choudhury, David Kaup (Eds.), The legacy of the inverse scattering transform in applied mathematics, Contemporary Mathematics 301, AMS, 2002, pp. 1-14

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ David J. Kaup in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Kaup, David J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaup, David James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and physicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Marionville , Missouri