Roger Mead
Roger Mead ( 1938 - August 10, 2015 ) was a British mathematician . He was Professor of Applied Statistics at the University of Reading .
In the mid-1960s, he and John Nelder at the National Vegetable Research Station (now part of the Warwick HRI ) developed the downhill simplex method for optimization, which is also known as the Nelder-Mead method .
He was Secretary of the International Biometric Society for the United Kingdom from 1978 to 1984 and its International Secretary from 1985 to 1992.
Fonts
- The design of experiments. Statistical principles for practical applications. Cambridge University Press , Cambridge 1988, ISBN 0-521-24512-5 .
- with Steven G. Gilmour , Andrew Mead : Statistical principles for the design of experiments. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2012, ISBN 978-1-58488-187-2 .
- with Robert N. Curnow , Anne M. Hasted : Statistical methods in agriculture and experimental biology. Chapman & Hall / CRC Press , Boca Raton 1983 (3rd edition: 2003), ISBN 978-1-58488-187-2 .
- with John Nelder: A simplex method for function minimization. Computer Journal ( Oxford University Press ), Volume 7, No. 4, 1965, pp. 308-313, doi : 10.1093 / comjnl / 7.4.308 .
literature
- Margaret H. Wright: Nelder, Mead and the other Simplex Method , Documenta Mathematica , Extra Volume ISMP, 2012, pp. 271–276 (PDF)
Individual evidence
- ↑ British Regional Meeting Biometric Society, Reading 2003 ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Professor Roger Mead (1938–2015)
- ^ Death of Roger Mead
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| SURNAME | Mead, Roger |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1938 |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 10, 2015 |