James D. Murray

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James Dickson Murray (born January 2, 1931 in Moffat , Scotland ) is professor emeritus of applied mathematics at the University of Washington . Murray's main research interests are in theoretical biology and mainly in the mathematical modeling of ecological, medical and psychological relationships, and he has achieved notoriety not least through his authoritative work "Mathematical Biology".

Murray studied mathematics at the University of St. Andrews , where he received his doctorate in 1955 under Andrew Ronald Mitchell ( Rotational flow in fluid dynamics ). He also holds a Masters degree from Oxford University (1961), from which he also received a PhD degree (D.Sc.) in 1968. He was Professor of Mathematical Biology and Director of the Center for Mathematical Biology at Oxford University before becoming Professor at the University of Washington.

In 1985 he was Ulam Visiting Scholar at Los Alamos National Laboratory and he was visiting professor at the University of Florence (1976), Tsinghua University in China (1975), the University of Utah (1979), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1979) ), the University of Paris (1994 to 1996), Caltech (1983), the University of Heidelberg (1980) and the University of Angers (1993).

He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1968. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1979) and the Royal Society (1985). In 2000 he became an external member of the Académie des sciences . In 1989 he received the Naylor Prize . From 1991 to 1994 he was President of the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology.

He has multiple honorary doctorates (St. Andrews 1994, University of Strathclyde 1999, University of Milan 2004, University of Waterloo 2006) and an honorary fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford (2000).

In his private life he is interested in art history, especially of the Middle Ages, and visits France regularly.

Selected publications

  • Mathematical Biology . 3rd edition in 2 volumes: Mathematical Biology: I. An Introduction (551 pages) 2002; Mathematical Biology: II. Spatial Models and Biomedical Applications (811 pages) 2003 (second printings 2004).
  • On the mechanochemical theory of biological pattern formation with application to vasculogenesis . Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris (Biologies) 326: 239-252, 2003.
  • On the use of quantitative modeling to help understand PSA dynamics and other medical problems (with KR Swanson and LD True). Amer. J. Clin. Pathol., 119 (1): 14-7, 2003
  • Virtual and real brain tumors: using mathematical modeling to quantify glioma growth and invasion (with KR Swanson, C. Bridge, and EC Alvord), Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 216 (1): 1-10, 2003.
  • Virtual brain tumors (gliomas) enhance the reality of medical imaging and highlight inadequacies of current therapy (with KR Swanson and EC Alvord). British J. Cancer 86: 14-18, 2002. [Abstracted for inclusion in the 2003 Yearbook of the Institute of Oncology]
  • Pattern formation, biological . In: The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks (ed. MA Arbib) pp. 851-859, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2002.
  • The Mathematics of Marriage: Dynamic Nonlinear Models (with JM Gottman, C. Swanson, R. Tyson, and KR Swanson). MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2002.
  • A mathematical model for the dynamics of serum prostate specific antigen as a marker for cancerous growth (with KR Swanson, D. Lin, L. True, K. Buhler and R. Vassella). Amer. J. Pathol. 158 (6): 2195-2199, 2001.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
personal data
SURNAME Murray, James D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Murray, James Dickson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Moffat , Scotland