Percy Deift

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Percy Alec Deift (born September 10, 1945 in Durban ) is a South African-born American mathematician who works in analysis and mathematical physics.

Life

Deift studied chemical engineering at the University of Natal in Durban (South Africa), with a bachelor's degree in 1967 and a master's degree in 1970. He also obtained a master's degree in physics in 1971 from Rhodes University in South Africa ( Grahamstown ). Deift received his PhD from Princeton University in 1976 with Barry Simon ( Classical scattering theory with a trace condition ). He is Professor of Mathematics at New York University and has been at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University since 1976 .

Deift deals with scattering theory (partly with Eugene Trubowitz , also inverse scattering theory), random matrices , integrable systems of dynamics and statistical mechanics (like the Toda lattice ) and numerical linear algebra.

In 1998 he received the George Pólya Prize . In 2009 he gave the Gibbs Lecture (Integrable systems- a modern view) and in 2018 he received the Henri Poincaré Prize . In 1999/2000 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. In 2006 he was invited speaker (plenary lecture) at the International Congress of Mathematicians (Universality for mathematical and physical systems). He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the American Mathematical Society since 2003, and of the National Academy of Sciences since 2009 .

Fonts

  • Orthogonal polynomials and random matrices - a Riemann-Hilbert approach , AMS (American Mathematical Society), 2000 (and Courant Institute, 1999)
  • with Trubowitz: Inverse scattering on the line , Communications on pure and applied Mathematics, Vol. 32, 1979, pp. 121-251
  • with Richard Beals , C. Tomei: Direct and inverse scattering on the line , AMS, 1988
  • with McLaughlin: Continuum limit of the Toda lattice , AMS, 1998
  • with Li, Tomei: Loop groups, discrete versions of some classical integrable systems, and rank 2 extensions , AMS, 1992

literature

  • Jinho Baik, Carlos Tomei, Thomas Kriecherbauer, Luen-Chau Li, Kenneth DTR McLaughlin (editors): Integrable systems and random matrices - in honor of Percy Deift's 60th birthday , Courant Institute, 2006, Contemporary Mathematics, 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Percy Deift in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Deift, Percy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Deift, Percy Alec
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Durban