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unusual facts about Applied Mathematics



David Leonhardt

Born in New York, Leonhardt graduated from Horace Mann School in Riverdale, New York in 1990, and then continued his studies at Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University, graduating in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science degree in applied mathematics.

Hicks Building

The building houses the departments of Physics and Astronomy, the Chemistry and Physics Workshop (formally known as the Central Mechanical Workshops) and the School of Mathematics and Statistics, which comprises the departments of Probability and Statistics, Applied Mathematics and Pure Mathematics.

International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics

The International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) is an international congress in the field of applied mathematics held every four years under the auspices of the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Lawrence A. Mysak

from the University of Adelaide in 1963 (where he was supervised by George Szekeres ) and his Ph.D., also in applied mathematics, from Harvard University in 1967.

National Conference on Mathematical and Computational Models

The National Conference on Mathematical and Computational Models (NCMCM) is a national level applied mathematics conference organized by Department of Mathematics and Computer Applications, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India every other year.

Part III of the Mathematical Tripos

Two of these may be awarded at the discretion of the examiners: the Mayhew Prize for Applied Mathematics and the Tyson Medal for mathematics and astronomy.


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Alan Edelman

An alumnus of Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics, Edelman received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in mathematics from Yale University in 1984, and the Ph.D. in applied mathematics from MIT in 1989 under the direction of Lloyd N. Trefethen.

Alexandre Proutiere

He received his PhD in Applied Mathematics from Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France in 2003 under the supervision of James Roberts.

Anthony N. Michel

In 1973 he received a DSc in applied mathematics from the Technical University of Graz, Austria.

Charbel Farhat

He is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the World Innovation Foundation, the International Association of Computational Mechanics, the US Association of Computational Mechanics, and the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Elisabeth Pate-Cornell

She holds a BS in mathematics and physics from Aix-Marseille University in 1968, MS and Engineering degrees in applied mathematics and computer science from the Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, France, in 1970; a Masters degree in Operations Research from Stanford in 1972 and a Ph.D. in Engineering-Economic Systems, also from Stanford, in 1978.

FH Aachen

Three faculties with more than 3,000 students altogether are located in Jülich: Chemistry and Biotechnology, Medical Technology and Applied Mathematics as well as Energy Technology.

Gabriel Naouri

Gabriel Naouri holds a master’s degree in Applied Mathematics from Paris Dauphine University (France).

Gradient pattern analysis

A key line of research on GPA's algorithms and applications has been developed at Lab for Computing and Applied Mathematics (LAC) at National Institute for Space Research (INPE) in Brazil.

Grenander

Ulf Grenander (born 23 July 1923 in Västervik, Sweden) statistician and a professor of applied mathematics

Hubert Dreyfus

His younger brother, Stuart Dreyfus, earned a Ph.D. in applied mathematics and is a professor of industrial engineering and operations research at the University of California, Berkeley.

ICIAM

International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, an organisation for professional applied mathematics societies

Institute of Applied Mathematics

The Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (“National Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics”) in Brazil

The Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y Sistemas (IIMAS, “Applied Mathematics and Systems Research Institute”) in Mexico City

Iris Mack

Iris Mack, PhD, EMBA earned a Harvard doctorate in Applied Mathematics and a London Business School Sloan Fellow MBA.

Jesús María Sanz-Serna

Jesús María Sanz-Serna (born on 12 June 1953 in Valladolid, Spain) is a mathematician who specializes in applied mathematics.

Leslie Valiant

He started teaching at Harvard University in 1982 and is currently the T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics in the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Numerary

Enrique Zuazua is a multi-awarded researcher and a Director of the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics.

Peter Chen

Born in Taichung, Taiwan, Peter Chen received a B.S. in electrical engineering in 1968 at the National Taiwan University, and a Ph.D. in computer science/applied mathematics at the Harvard University in 1973.

Pierre Fatou

Leonid Mandelstam and Nikolay Bogolyubov and his students and developed in a large area of modern applied mathematics.

Raimo Hämäläinen

Raimo P. Hämäläinen (b. 1948, Helsinki) is a professor of Applied Mathematics and Operations Research at the Aalto University School of Science (Aalto SCI), Finland.

Raj Jain

Dr. Jain obtained a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (Computer Science) from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1978, an M.E. in Automation from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India in 1974, and a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Awdhesh Pratap Singh University, Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, India in 1972.

Rattleback

The first modern descriptions of these celts were published in the 1890s when Gilbert Walker wrote his "On a curious dynamical property of celts" for the Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society in Cambridge, England, and "On a dynamical top" for the Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics in Somerville, Mass.

Saj-nicole A. Joni

At the age of 24, having completed her Ph.D., Saj-nicole joined the applied mathematics faculty of MIT, working closely with Professor Gian-Carlo Rota.

Sociedade Brasileira de Matemática Aplicada e Computacional

The Sociedade Brasileira de Matemática Aplicada e Computacional (Brazilian Society of Computational and Applied Mathematics, SBMAC) was created on November 1, 1978 at the First National Symposium on Numerical, held on the premises of the Institute of Exact Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais.

Thomas Elder

The first incumbent, Sir Horace Lamb, an applied mathematician, lectured in pure and applied mathematics as well as giving instruction in practical physics.

Thomas N.E. Greville

Greville was a member of the American Mathematical Society; the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics; the Society of Actuaries; the Institute of Mathematical Statistics; the American Statistical Association; and the Parapsychological Association.

Werner Icking Music Archive

The mathematician and computer scientist Werner Icking (25 June 1943–8 February 2001) spent a large part of his career at the Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung, a national research centre for applied mathematics and computer science in Sankt Augustin Germany.

Wojciech Rostafiński

He was manager of advanced research projects at NASA Lewis Research Center in Cleveland Ohio, contributed to the theory of aeronautics and applied mathematics, listed in Scientific Citation Index.