Joel Robbin

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Joel William Robbin (born May 28, 1941 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American mathematician .

Robbin studied at the University of Illinois with a bachelor's degree in 1962 and at Princeton University with a master's degree in 1964 and a doctorate in 1965 at Alonzo Church with a dissertation in mathematical logic ( subrecursive hierarchies ). As a post-graduate student , he was an instructor at Princeton from 1965 to 1967 . In 1967 he became an assistant professor and in 1973 a professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison .

Robbin started in mathematical logic (and wrote a textbook about it), but then switched to dynamic systems (following the work of Stephen Smale ) and later to symplectic geometry and topology, where he published with Dietmar Salamon , among others .

He programmed a free version of a (small) part of MATLAB (called MINI MatLab), which he later ported to the Java programming language. He published a book on matrix algebra using MINI Matlab.

He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

Fonts

  • with Ralph Abraham Transversal mappings and flows , Benjamin 1967
  • Mathematical Logic - a first course , Benjamin 1969
  • Matrix algebra using MINImal MATlab , AK Peters 1995
  • with H. Jerome Keisler Mathematical Logic and Computability .
  • On structural stability , Bulletin AMS, Vol. 76, 1970, pp. 723-726

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ Robbin at Ncatlab
personal data
SURNAME Robbin, Joel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Robbin, Joel William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois