Ian Sneddon

Ian Naismith Sneddon, IN Sneddon often quoted, ( born December 8, 1919 in Renfrew (Scotland ) † November 4, 2000 in Glasgow ) was a Scottish mathematician and physicist who worked on analysis and applied mathematics, in particular the theory of elasticity.

Life and work

His mathematical textbooks are characterized by emphasis on the applications. He also edited the English edition of the well-known course of Higher Mathematics of Vladimir Smirnov and Analysis textbooks of spruce.

In 1958 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Society in 1983. He was more honorary doctorates, received the Order of Polonia Restituta and was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1969 he was awarded the OBE. In 1959 he was president of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society.

He was married to a high school sweetheart since 1943 and had a daughter and two sons.

Writings

  • Nevill Mott with: Wave Mechanics and its applications, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1948, Dover 1963
  • Fourier Transforms, McGraw Hill 1951, Dover 1995
  • Fourier Series, London, Routledge and Paul 1961
  • Use of Integral Transforms, McGraw Hill 1972
  • Special functions in mathematical physics and chemistry, Oliver and Boyd 1956, Longman 1980
  • Special functions of mathematical physics and chemistry II, formulary, BI university paperbacks in 1963
  • Elements of partial differential equations, McGraw Hill 1957, Dover 2006
  • With J. Defares: An introduction to the mathematics of medicine and biology, North Holland, Amsterdam, 1960, Chicago 1973
  • Mixed boundary value problems in potential theory, Wiley 1966
  • With EL Ince: Solutions of ordinary differential equations, 2nd edition, Wiley 1987
  • With M. Lowengrub: Crack problems in the classical theory of elasticity, Wiley 1969
  • Publisher: Encyclopaedic dictionary of mathematics for engineers and scientists Applied, Pergamon Press 1976
  • With Denis Stanley Berry: Classical theory of elasticity, in: Siegfried Flügge (Editor): Elasticity and Plasticity, Encyclopedia of Physics, Springer 1958
  • Functional Analysis, in S.Flügge (Editor): Encyclopedia of Physics, Mathematical Methods, Vol.2, 1955 ( with a detailed section on integral transforms )
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