Mathematics Unlimited by Wilfried Schmid
This is a book guaranteed to delight the reader. It not only depicts the state of mathematics at the end of the century, but is also full of remarkable insights into its future de- velopment as we enter a new millennium. True to its title, the book extends beyond the spectrum of mathematics to in- clude contributions from other related sciences. You will enjoy reading the many stimulating contributions and gain insights into the astounding progress of mathematics and the perspectives for its future. One of the editors, Bjorn Eng- quist, is a world-renowned researcher in computational sci- ence and engineering. The second editor, Wilfried Schmid, is a distinguished mathematician at Harvard University. Likewi- se the authors are all foremost mathematicians and scien- tists, and their biographies and photographs appear at the end of the book. Unique in both form and content, this is a "must-read" for every mathematician and scientist and, in particular, for graduates still choosing their specialty.Bjü¾¦˜¼rn Engquist received his Ph.D. in numerical analysis from Uppsala University in the year 1975. He has been professor of mathematics at UCLA, Uppsala University and the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He was Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Mathematics and Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University and now holds the Computational and Applied Mathematics Chair I at the University of Texas at Austin.
He was director of the Research Institute for Industrial Applications of Scientific Computing and of the Centre for Parallel Computers at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. At Princeton University, he was director of the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics and the Princeton Institute for Computational Science and he is now the director of the ICES Center for Numerical Analysis in Austin.
Engquist is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He was a Guggenheim Fellow, received the first SIAM Prize in Scientific Computing 1982, the Celsius Medal 1992, the Henrici Prize 2011, the George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics 2012 and ICIAM Pioneer Prize 2015. He was an ICM speaker in the years 1982 and 1998.
His research field is development, analysis and application of numerical methods for differential equations. A particular focus has been multiscale problems and applications to fluid mechanics and wave propagation. He has had 40 PhD students.
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| ISBN 13 | 9783540669135 |
| ISBN 10 | 3540669132 |
| Title | Mathematics Unlimited |
| Author | Wilfried Schmid |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
| Year published | 2000-12-18 |
| Number of pages | 1266 |
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