Joseph Keller
Joseph Bishop Keller ( born July 31, 1923 in Paterson, New Jersey) is an American mathematician who made important contributions to applied mathematics.
Life
Keller studied mathematics at New York University and received his doctorate in 1948 with Richard Courant. From 1948 to 1979 he was professor of mathematics at the Courant Institute of New York University and from 1979 to 1993 professor of mathematics and mechanical engineering at Stanford University. In 1993, he went into retirement.
His younger brother, Herbert Keller, who earned his doctorate at him, is also a well-known mathematician.
Services
Keller has published more than 300 scientific papers, covering a wide spectrum of applied mathematics. He is famous especially for he developed geometric theory of diffraction as well as applications of the ( named after him ) Einstein - Brillouin -Keller method ( SFBC) in the semiclassical approximation of quantum mechanics.
Honors
For his achievements cellar has won many awards. 1976 and 1977 he was awarded the Lester Randolph Ford Award from the Mathematical Association of America. In 1979 he was honored with the Theodore von Kármán Prize of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics ( SIAM ). 1981 AC Eringen Medal from the Society of Engineering Science awarded him. In 1984 he received the Timoshenko Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME ) and the 1988 National Medal of Science from the United States. The National Academy of Sciences honored him in 1995 by the award of the National Academy of Sciences Award in Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis. In 1996 he was awarded the Nemmers Prize for Mathematics in 1997 and the Wolf Prize in Mathematics. In 1994 he gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM ) in Zurich (wave propagation). He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Keller is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States since 1973. He is an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Denmark, Northwestern University, the Technical University of Crete and the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
For its calculation of a teapot, whose spout does not drip, him the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics 1999 was awarded. In 2012 he again received the Ig Nobel Prize for work on the movement of a horse's tail.