John Bryce McLeod

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John Bryce McLeod (born December 23, 1929 in Aberdeen - † August 20, 2014 ) was a British applied mathematician who studied linear and nonlinear partial and ordinary differential equations.

McLeod received his doctorate in 1959 under Edward Titchmarsh at the University of Oxford ( Some problems in the theory of eigenfunction expansions ) He was a professor at Oxford (and since 1960 Fellow of Wadham College ) and from 1988 at the University of Pittsburgh , although he has his connections to Oxford and spent half a year there.

In hydrodynamics, he dealt with Theodore von Kármán's problem of a rotating viscous liquid, problems in boundary layer theory and stationary water waves of extreme form. He later dealt with difficult problems of bifurcation theory and nonlinear diffusion equations. He is considered to be one of the UK's leading experts in functional analysis applications.

In the theory of water waves he worked with John Toland , among others . In 1965 he received the Whittaker Prize , in 1987 the Keith Medal . In 2011 he received the Naylor Prize for his important and multifaceted successes in the analysis of nonlinear differential equations from applications in mechanics, physics and biology . He was a Fellow of the Royal Society (1992) and the Royal Society of Edinburgh .

Fonts

  • with Stuart P. Hastings Classical Methods in Ordinary Differential Equations: With Applications to Boundary Value Problems , American Mathematical Society 2011

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ He uses the first name Bryce, which is why J. Bryce McLeod is quoted
  2. ^ Entry on McLeod; John Bryce (1929-2914) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
  3. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ Fellows of Wadham College ( Memento of the original dated August 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wadham.ox.ac.uk
  5. ↑ Laudation in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
  6. ↑ Laudation, quoted from Notices of the AMS, October 2011, p. 1301
personal data
SURNAME McLeod, John Bryce
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British applied mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Aberdeen , Aberdeenshire, Scotland
DATE OF DEATH 20th August 2014