Lawrence E. Payne

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Lawrence Edward Payne (born October 2, 1923 in McLeansboro , Hamilton County , Illinois or Enfield , White County , Illinois, † August 11, 2011 in Ithaca , New York ) was an American mathematician .

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Lawrence E. Payne, called Larry Payne, was the son of Robert Ulysses Payne (1898–1990) and Harriet Gertrude Payne, b. Lasher (1898–1948) was born and had four siblings. He joined the US Navy in 1943 , which enabled him to study mechanical engineering at Iowa State University . In 1946 he graduated there with a Bachelor of Science . He then worked as an engineer for a year , but returned to Iowa State University to study applied mathematics . He completed this course in 1948 with a Master of Science and in 1950 with a Ph.D. from Dio Lewis Holl . After a year as an assistant professor at the University of Arizona , he joined the newly established Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Maryland in 1951 . From 1965 to 1994 he was Professor of Mathematics at Cornell University . There he was also director of the Center for Applied Mathematics and from 1977 to 1979 associate chairman of the mathematics department. Visiting scholar or visiting professor has taken him to the ETH Zurich , the Humboldt University of Berlin , the University of Genoa , the University of Florence , the University of Newcastle upon Tyne , the University of Glasgow , the University College Dublin , the University of Virginia , the University of Tennessee , the University of Delaware , the University of Wisconsin, and Heriot-Watt University .

Payne worked in the field of partial differential equations , especially those that appear in the description of solids and liquids. Among other things, he made contributions to the theory of elasticity , to the maximum principle and its applications in the theory of elasticity, to isoperimetric inequalities , to a priori estimates, to the mean value theorem of differential calculus , to Korn's inequality, to the principle of St. Venant and to correctly placed ones Problems .

In 1972 Payne received the Leroy P. Steele Prize of the American Mathematical Society , of which he had been a member since 1948, for his work Isoperimetric inequalities and their applications . He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics and, since 1991, the Royal Society of Edinburgh . In April 1990 he received the title of Doctor of Science (honoris causa) from the National University of Ireland and in 1992 the Citation of Merit from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University.

Payne had Irish roots and was also into genealogy . He married Ruth Winterstein (1927–1999) and had five children with her. He died of lymphatic cancer and was buried in Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Cayuga Heights, New York.

James H. Bramble is one of his PhD students .

Works

Payne published nearly 300 papers and two books.

  • Static Wheel Loads on Airplane Landing Slabs. Thesis (MS), Iowa State College, 1948
  • Torsion and flexure of composite sections. Thesis (Ph.D.), Iowa State College, 1950
  • with Robin John Knops: Uniqueness theorems in linear elasticity (= Springer tracts in natural philosophy, Volume 19). Springer, Berlin [ua] 1971, ISBN 3-540-05253-4 , ISBN 0-387-05253-4
  • Improperly Posed Problems in Partial Differential Equations (= CBMS-NSF regional conference series in applied mathematics, Volume 22). Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Philadelphia 1975

literature

  • Cornelius O. Horgan, Philip W. Schaefer, and Roger L. Fosdick: In Recognition of the Seventy-fifth Birthday of Lawrence E. Payne. In: Journal of Elasticity. Volume 49, No. 2, 1998, pp. 89-99, doi: 10.1023 / A: 1007481532685 (with picture and list of publications)
  • Lawrence E. Payne. In: Ithaca Journal. August 12, 2011 (with picture)
  • Howard A. Levine: Tribute to Lawrence E. Payne. (PDF; 292 kB) In: Notices of the AMS. Volume 59, No. 5, May 2012, p. 653 (with picture)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Howard A. Levine: Tribute to Lawrence E. Payne. (PDF; 292 kB) In: Notices of the AMS. Volume 59, No. 5, May 2012, p. 653 (with picture)
  2. ^ Payne, Lawrence E. (Lawrence Edward), 1923– Entry in the Library of Congress
  3. ↑ Lawrence Edward Payne's family tree
  4. ^ The Leroy P Steele Prize of the AMS ; Original work: Isoperimetric inequalities and their applications. In: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Review (SIAM Review). Volume 9, 1967, pp. 453-488.
  5. ↑ Lawrence E. Payne (1923–2011), American Mathematical Society, November 1, 2011
  6. ↑ AAM Fellows ( Memento of the original dated February 5, 2012 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. on the site of the American Academy of Mechanics @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aamech.org
  7. ↑ RSE Fellows ordered by Academic Discipline as at 16/04/2012 (PDF; 475 kB)
  8. ↑ NUI Honorary degrees awarded (PDF; 461 kB) on the website of the National University of Ireland
  9. ↑ Citation of Merit on the Iowa State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences website
  10. ^ Family tree of John Eric Payne
  11. ↑ Lawrence E Payne on billiongraves.com
personal data
SURNAME Payne, Lawrence E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Payne, Lawrence Edward (full name); Payne, Larry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH McLeansboro , Hamilton County , Illinois or Enfield , White County , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 2011
Place of death Ithaca , New York