Marty Golubitsky

Martin Golubitsky ( born April 5, 1945 in Philadelphia ) is an American mathematician.

Golubitsky studied at the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor 's and Master 's degree in 1966 and 1970 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Victor Guillemin doctorate ( Primitive Actions and maximal subgroups of Lie groups). As a post - graduate student he was at UCLA and MIT. In 1974 he became assistant professor in 1977 and associate professor at Queens College. 1977/78 he was at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University, and in 1978 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study. In 1979 he became a professor at the University of Arizona and in 1983 professor at the University of Houston, where he was Cullen Distinguished Professor in 1989. In 2008 he was a professor at the Ohio State University, where he is also Director of the Mathematical Biosciences Institute.

He has been a visiting professor in Nice, at Duke University, the University of Berkeley, the University of Toronto and an adjunct professor at Rice University. He was a visiting scientist at the Fields Institute (then at the University of Waterloo ). , The Biodynamics Center at Boston University and the Isaac Newton Institute and Trinity College, Cambridge

It deals with non-linear dynamics ( chaos theory) and bifurcation theory, and in particular the role of symmetries in pattern formation in physical and biological systems and the role of network architectures in coupled systems. This led also to popular science books, among others, Ian Stewart.

He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Writings

• With Victor Guillemin Stable mappings and Their singularities, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer Verlag 1973
• With M. Dellnitz Linear Algebra and Differential Equations using Matlab, Brooks - Cole 1999
• With Ian Stewart The Symmetry Perspective: From Equilibrium to Chaos in Phase Space and Physical Space, Progress in Mathematics, Birkhäuser 2002 ( Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer received the price)
• Symmetrically with Stewart Thinks God, Birkhauser 1993 ( English original Fearful Symmetry: is God a geometer, Blackwell, 1992)?
• With M. Field: Symmetry in chaos. A search for pattern in mathematics, art and nature, Oxford University Press, 1992 ( German translation: Chaotic Symmetries, Birkhauser 1993)