Peter Olver

Peter John Olver (born January 11, 1952 in Twickenham ) is an American mathematician who studies partial differential equations and their symmetries ( Lie theory ).

life and work

Olver, who immigrated to the USA in 1961, studied at Brown University with a bachelor's degree in 1973 and received his doctorate from Harvard University in 1976 with Garrett Birkhoff ( Symmetry Groups of Partial Differential Equations ). As a post-doctoral student he was an LE Dickson Instructor at the University of Chicago and from 1978 to 1980 at the University of Oxford . In 1980 he became an Assistant Professor and in 1985 Professor at the University of Minnesota . There he stayed until 1992/93 as a professor at the University of Maryland .

He has been a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) since 2012 and of the Institute of Physics since 2004 .

He has been married to the mathematician Chehrzad Shakiban since 1976 , with whom he has three children.

He has been a US citizen since 1967.

Equivalence, invariants and symmetry , Cambridge University Press 1995
Classical Invariant Theory , Cambridge University Press 1999
Application of Lie Groups to Differential Equations , Springer Verlag 1986, 2nd edition 1993
with Chehrzad Shakiban Applied Linear Algebra , Prentice-Hall 2006
Editor with David H. Sattinger Solitons in physics, mathematics, and nonlinear optics , Springer Verlag 1990
Editor with Allen Tannenbaum Mathematical methods in computer vision , Springer Verlag 2003
Editor with Hongbo Li, Gerald Sommer Computer algebra and geometric algebra with applications , Springer Verlag 2005 (Workshop Shanghai and Xian 2004)
Introduction to Partial Differential Equations, Springer, Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, 2014