Neil Trudinger

Neil Trudinger at the workshop “Partial Differential Equations” in Oberwolfach , 2007

Neil Sidney Trudinger (born June 20, 1942 in Ballarat , Australia ) is an Australian mathematician who deals with partial differential equations .

Trudinger studied at the University of New England in Australia and received his PhD in 1966 from Stanford University with David Gilbarg ( Quasilinear Elliptical Partial Differential Equations in n Variables ). He then worked as a post-doc at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University , in 1967 at the University of Pisa , 1968 to 1970 at Macquarie University in Australia, at the University of Queensland and in 1971 at the University of Minnesota and Stanford University before becoming a professor at the Australian National University in Canberra from 1973 , where he has taught since then. From 1989 to 1993 he was also a professor at Northwestern University . From 1973 to 1980 he was director of the Pure Mathematics Department, from 1982 to 1990 director of the Commonwealth Research Center for Mathematical Analysis and from 1992 to 2000 he was dean of the mathematics faculty in Canberra. He was visiting professor at various universities in Asia, Europe and the USA.

Trudinger is a member of the Australian Academy of Sciences and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London . In 1981 he was awarded the first medal of the Australian Mathematical Society and in 1996 received the Hannan Medal of the Australian Academy of Sciences. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

In 2008 he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for his book with Gilbarg on the theory of (nonlinear) elliptic partial differential equations . In 2006 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid ( Recent developments in elliptic partial differential equations of Monge-Ampere type ). For 2012 he was awarded the George Szekeres Medal . In 2008/09 and 2009/2010 he was on the Abel Prize Committee .

Fonts

• with David Gilbarg: Elliptic partial differential equations of second order, Springer 1977, ISBN 3-540-41160-7

Web links

• On the Steele Prize for Trudinger, Notices of the AMS, 2003 (PDF file) (129 kB)
• John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson :  Neil Trudinger. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .