Philip Holmes
Philip John Holmes (born May 24, 1945 in Lincolnshire ) is an American applied mathematician who studies nonlinear mechanics and dynamical systems.
Holmes graduated from Oxford University with a bachelor's degree in 1967 and received his doctorate in engineering from the University of Southampton in 1974 . In 1977 he became Assistant Professor and 1984 Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at Cornell University , most recently as Charles N. Mellowes Professor of Engineering and Mathematics . From 1981 to 1986 he headed the Center for Applied Mathematics there. He has been a professor at Princeton University since 1994 . There he is Eugene Higgins Professor for Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering and for Applied and Computational Mathematics. From 1994 to 1997 and 2010/11 he was director of the applied and numerical mathematics program at Princeton.
In 1988/89 he was a Fairchild Scholar at Caltech . 1985/86 he was Aisenstadt professor at the University of Montreal. In 2000 he was visiting professor at the Erdős Mathematics Center in Budapest.
He deals with the mathematical theory of dynamic systems with application in nonlinear mechanics of liquids and solids, nonlinear vibrations, Hamiltonian mechanics and mathematical biology.
He has been editor of the Journal of Nonlinear Science since 1989 and of the Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis since 1986. From 1984 to 1989 he was editor of the SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics.
In 2006 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1994) and an honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2001). He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .
In 2013 he and John Guckenheimer received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for their book on dynamic systems, which when it was published bridged the gap between mathematicians, physicists and engineers in the presentation of the theory that has been developing rapidly since the 1960s (keywords are chaos theory and catastrophe theory ).
He also published four volumes of poetry and wrote a book on the historical roots of chaos theory, for example with Henri Poincaré with Florin Diacu. At Princeton he also developed a math course for non-mathematicians (Math Alive) with Ingrid Daubechies .
He has been married since 1970 and has four children. Holmes is a US citizen.
Fonts
- with John Guckenheimer: Nonlinear Oscillations, Dynamical Systems and Bifurcations of Vector Fields. Springer Verlag 1983, new edition 1990.
- with John L. Lumley , Gal Berkooz: Turbulence, Coherent Structures, Dynamical Systems and Symmetry. Cambridge University Press 1996, 2nd edition 2012 (with Clarence W. Rowley).
- with Robert Ghrist , Michael Sullivan: Knots, Links and Three-dimensional Flows. Springer Verlag 1997.
- with Florin Diacu: Celestial Encounters: The Origins of Chaos and Stability. Princeton University Press 1996.
Web links
- Homepage in Princeton
- Philip Holmes in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004.
- ↑ AMS press release
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Holmes, Philip |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Holmes, Philip John (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American applied mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lincolnshire |