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Lee Aaron Segel (born February 5, 1932 in Boston , † January 31, 2005 in Rehovot ) was an American mathematician and mathematical biologist .
Segel's ancestors were Jewish immigrants from Lithuania. His father was a tailor and partner at Oppenheim-Segel. He also collected art at his home in Newton, Massachusetts . Segal's mother was an art teacher. Segel attended high school in Newton and studied mathematics at Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1953 and a PhD in 1959 with CC Lin at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Applied Mathematics ( Applications of Conformal Mapping to Boundary Perturbation Problems ). In 1958 he married in London, where he lived for two years, the native Ruth Galinski, with whom he had four children. From 1960 he taught at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , where George H. Handelman (1921-2008) also taught applied mathematics and elasticity theory. In 1963/64 he was a guest resident at MIT. In 1973 he received a Guggenheim scholarship at the Weizmann Institute and accepted a professorship there. He became head of the applied mathematics department at the Weizmann Institute.
He dealt with mathematical applications, for example conformal mapping in hydrodynamics. From the end of the 1960s he dealt with mathematical biology. This happened during a sabbatical year in New York at Cornell University Medical School and the Sloan Kettering Institute (where Sol Rubinow worked). With Evelyn Fox Keller , he developed the Keller-Segel-Modell for bacterial chemotaxis and the organization of slime molds.
From 1984 to 1999 he was an advisor in the summer courses of the theoretical biology group at Los Alamos National Laboratory (and Ulam Visiting Scholar in 1993/94) and he was active at the Santa Fe Institute . Segel was editor of the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology and a key figure in the field of theoretical biology at the Gordon Research Conferences.
The Society for Mathematical Biology awards him the Lee Segel Prize in memory.
Fonts
- The Importance of Asymptotic Analysis in Applied Mathematics, American Mathematical Monthly, Volume 73, 1966, pp. 7-14
- with Keller: Initiation of slime mold aggregation viewed as an instability , Journal of Theoretical Biology, Volume 26, 1970, pp. 399-415
- with Keller: Model for chemotaxis , Journal of Theoretical Biology, Volume 31, 1971, pp. 225-234
- with CC Lin Mathematics applied to deterministic problems in the natural sciences , SIAM 1974, 1988
- Mathematics applied to continuum mechanics , SIAM 1977 (with additional material from GH Handelman)
- Mathematical Models in Molecular and Cellular Biology , 1980, Cambridge UP 1984
- Modeling dynamic phenomena in molecular and cellular biology , Cambridge UP 1984
- as editor: Biological Kinetics , Cambridge UP 1991
- as editor with Irun Cohen : Design Principles for the Immune System and Other Distributed Autonomous Systems (Santa Fe Institute); Oxford UP 2001
- with Leah Edelstein-Keshet: A primer on mathematical models in biology , SIAM 2013
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Lee Segel. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sails, lee |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Segel, Lee Aaron (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 31, 2005 |
| Place of death | Rehovot |