Robert Devaney

Robert Luke Devaney (born April 9, 1948 in Methuen , Massachusetts ) is an American mathematician.

Devaney studied at the College of the Holy Cross (Bachelor 1969) and received his doctorate in 1973 from the University of California, Berkeley under Stephen Smale with the dissertation " Reversible Diffeomorphisms and Flows ". He taught at Northwestern University and Tufts University before becoming a professor at Boston University in 1980 .

Devaney deals with dynamic systems and mathematical chaos theory (for example Mandelbrot-set , Julia-set ), wrote several textbooks for different target groups and gives regular lectures in the USA and internationally. He has been the organizer of Boston University's Math Field Days for students for over 18 years and has received several awards for his educational work from the Mathematical Association of America , the National Science Foundation (whose Dynamical Systems Technology Project he has headed since 1989), and Boston University. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

Fonts

with Stephen Smale, Morris Hirsch : Differential equations, dynamical systems and an introduction to chaos , Academic Press 2004 (2nd edition)
An introduction to chaotic dynamical systems , Addison-Wesley 1986, 2nd edition 1990
A first course in chaotic dynamical systems - Theory and Experiment , Perseus Press 1992
Chaos, Fractals and Dynamics: Computer Experiments in Modern Mathematics , Addison-Wesley 1989
with Paul Blanchard, G. Hall Differential Equations , Brooks / Cole 1998, 2005
Singular perturbations of complex polynomials , Bulletin AMS, Volume 50, 2013, 391-429, online
Devaney: Cantor and Sierpinski, Julia and Fatou: complex topology meets complex dynamics , Notices AMS, January 2004

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SURNAME	Devaney, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Devaney, Robert L .; Devaney, Robert Luke (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	April 9, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH	Methuen , Massachusetts