John Guckenheimer
John Mark Guckenheimer (born 1945) joined the Department of Mathematics at Cornell University in 1985. He was previously at the University of California, Santa Cruz (1973-1985). He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1984, and was elected president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), serving from 1997 to 1998. Guckenheimer received his A.B. in 1966 from Harvard and his Ph.D. in 1970 from Berkeley, where his Ph.D. thesis advisor was Stephen Smale.
John Mark Guckenheimer | |
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| Born | 1945 Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (AB) University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
| Known for | Dynamical systems Bifurcation theory |
| Awards | Leroy P. Steele Prize (2013) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematician |
| Institutions | University of California, Santa Cruz Cornell University |
| Doctoral advisor | Stephen Smale |
His book Nonlinear Oscillations, Dynamical Systems and Bifurcation of Vector Fields (with Philip Holmes) is an extensively cited work on dynamical systems.
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