Michael C. Reed
Michael Charles Reed (born May 7, 1942 in Kalamazoo , Michigan ) is an American mathematician who studies mathematical physics, analysis and applications of mathematics in biology.
Career
Reed studied at Yale University with a bachelor's degree in 1963 and at Stanford University with a master's degree in 1966 and a doctorate with Ralph Phillips in 1968 ( On the self-adjointness of quantum fields and Hamiltonians ). From 1968 he was an instructor and later an assistant professor at Princeton University and since 1974 he has been a professor at Duke University , where he headed the mathematics faculty from 1982 to 1989 and since 1986 director of the Center for Mathematics and Computation in Life Science and Medicine was.
He is concerned with nonlinear harmonic analysis and partial differential equations , specifically scattering theory and singularity propagation, and is the co-author of a series of four monographs on mathematical physics with Barry Simon , a standard work.
Reed is mainly concerned with the application of mathematics in biology and medicine and the problems of analysis that arise from it. For example, together with the biologist Fred Nijhout, he investigated regulatory mechanisms for the metabolism of the cell and especially methionine , folic acid and glutathione in the liver with application to the explanation of various diseases and poisoning mechanisms . They also examined the metabolism of dopamine and serotonin in the brain using mathematical models. Other applications were the mammalian auditory nervous system, the owl optical brain system, models of the formation of luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone in the pituitary gland , models of the fetus-mother interaction, and models of insect metabolism.
In 2012 he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society . 1974 to 1980 he was editor of the Duke Journal of Mathematics.
He has been married since 1992 and has four children.
Fonts
- Why is mathematical biology so hard?, Notices AMS, 2004, No. 3, pdf
- with Barry Simon Methods of Mathematical Physics , 4 volumes, Academic Press 1972–1977
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Michael C. Reed in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Reed, Michael C. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reed, Michael Charles (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kalamazoo , Michigan |