Donald G. Saari

Donald Gene Saari ( born March 9, 1940 in Ironwood, Michigan) is an American mathematician.

Life

Donald Saari studied mathematics at Michigan Technological University (Bachelor 1962) and Purdue University, where he in 1964 his master's degree made ​​and in 1967 received his doctorate in Harry Pollard with a theme from the celestial mechanics ( Singularities of the n -body problem- of celestial mechanics ). as a post - graduate student, he worked as an astronomer at Yale University. He was an Assistant Professor, Associate Professor in 1970 and 1974, Professor of Mathematics at Northwestern University in 1968. He was from 1988 to 2000 at the same time Professor of Economics. Since 2000 he is professor at the University of California, Irvine (UCI ), at the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, which he is Director since 2003. 2002 to 2005 he was also director of the Center for Decision Analysis at UCI. He also teaches at the Pacific Institute of the Mathematical Sciences ( PIMS ) on which he was awarded in 2002 with a Distinguished Chair.

He is known for work in celestial mechanics (N- body problem ), and applications of mathematics in the social sciences, for example in mathematical economics and in electoral processes.

Saari is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2001), the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004) and the Finnish Academy of Sciences. He holds honorary doctorates from Purdue University, the University of Caen, Michigan Technological University and the University of Turku in Finland. In 1988 he was Guggenheim Fellow. In 1999 he received the Award of the MAA Allendoerfer. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society ( AMS). He was editor of the Bulletin of the AMS.

In 2006 he was awarded the Lester Randolph Ford Award, the Award and Allendorf 1995 Chauvenet Prize.

Donald G. Saari Finnish ancestors. He has been married since 1966 and has two children.

Writings

  • Collisions, rings, and other Newtonian N -body problems, American Mathematical Society, 2005 ( Russian translation 2009)
  • With Z. Xia Hamiltonian Dynamics and Celestial Mechanics, AMS, Contemporary Mathematics, 1988
  • Geometry of voting, Springer Verlag 1994
  • Basic geometry of voting, Springer Verlag 1995
  • Decisions and elections. Explaining the unexpected, Cambridge University Press 2001
  • Disposing dictators. Demystifying voting paradox, Cambridge University Press 2008
  • The Way it What: Mathematics From the Early Years of the Bulletin, American Mathematical Society, 2003
  • Off to infinity in finite time, Notices AMS, 1995, No.5, pdf
  • Mathematics and Voting, Notices AMS, 2008, No.4, pdf
  • Mathematical complexity of simple economics, Notices AMS, 1995, No. 2, [ www.ams.org/notices/199502/saari.pdf pdf]
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