Donald G. Saari

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Donald Gene Saari (born March 9, 1940 in Ironwood , Michigan ) is an American mathematician .

Life

Donald Saari studied mathematics at Michigan Technological University ( Bachelor 1962) and Purdue University , where he in 1964 his master took Accounts and 1967 Harry Pollard received his doctorate with a topic from the celestial mechanics ( Singularities of the n-body problem-of celestial mechanics ). As a post-graduate student , he was an astronomer at Yale University . In 1968 he became an assistant professor , an associate professor in 1970 and a professor of mathematics in 1974 at Northwestern University . There he was also professor of economics from 1988 to 2000. Since 2000 he has been a professor at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), at the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences , of which he has been director since 2003. From 2002 to 2005 he was also director of the Center for Decision Analysis at the UCI. He also teaches at the Pacific Institute of the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), where he was awarded a Distinguished Chair in 2002.

He is known for his work in celestial mechanics ( N-body problem ) and applications of mathematics in the social sciences, for example in mathematical economics and in elective procedures.

Saari is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2001), the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004) and the Finnish Academy of Sciences . He holds honorary doctorates from Purdue University, Caen University , Michigan Technological University, and Turku University in Finland. In 1988 he was a Guggenheim Fellow . In 1999 he received the Allendoerfer Award from the MAA. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). He was editor of the bulletin of the AMS.

In 1985 he received the Lester Randolph Ford Award , in 1999 the Allendoerfer Award and in 1995 the Chauvenet Prize .

Donald G. Saari has Finnish ancestry. He has been married since 1966 and has two children.

Fonts

  • Mathematics and the dark matter puzzle , American Math Monthly 122 (2015) 407-423
  • Collisions, rings, and other Newtonian N-body problems , American Mathematical Society 2005 (Russian translation 2009)
  • with Z. Xia Hamiltonian Dynamics and Celestial Mechanics , AMS, Contemporary Mathematics, 1988
  • Geometry of voting , Springer Verlag 1994
  • Basic geometry of voting , Springer Verlag 1995
  • Decisions and elections. Explaining the unexpected , Cambridge University Press 2001
  • Chaotic elections! A mathematician looks at voting , AMS 2001
  • Disposing dictators. Demystifying voting paradoxes , Cambridge University Press 2008
  • The Way it Was: Mathematics From the Early Years of the Bulletin , American Mathematical Society, 2003
  • with Jeff Xia : Off to infinity in finite time , Notices AMS, 1995, No. 5, pdf
  • Mathematics and Voting , Notices AMS, 2008, No. 4, pdf
  • Mathematical complexity of simple economics , Notices AMS, 1995, No. 2, pdf
  • Mathematics Motivated by the Social and Behavioral Sciences , SIAM 2018
  • Mathematics of Finance. An Intuitive Introduction , Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer 2019
  • Editor with Alain Chenciner, Richard Chushman, Clark Robinson, Zhihong Jeff Xia: Celestial Mechanics: Dedicated to Donald Saari for his 60th Birthday , Contemporary Mathematics 292, AMS 2002

literature

  • Donald J. Albers, Gerald L. Alexanderson Fascinating Mathematical People: Interviews and Memoirs , Princeton University Press 2011

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004. According to English Wikipedia, born in Houghton , query date: June 25, 2012.
  2. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ For Donald G. Saari, John B. Urenko, Newton's method, circle maps, and chaotic motion , Amer. Math. Monthly, Vol. 91, 1984, pp. 3-17
  4. ^ For A Visit to the Newtonian N-body Problem via Elementary Complex Variables , American Mathematical Monthly. Volume 97, 1990, pp. 105-119
personal data
SURNAME Saari, Donald G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saari, Donald Gene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Ironwood , Michigan