Michael C. Reed
Michael Charles Reed ( born May 7, 1942 in Kalamazoo, Michigan) is an American mathematician who deals with mathematical physics, analysis, and applications of mathematics in biology.
Reed studied at Yale University with a bachelor's degree in 1963 and from Stanford University with a master's degree in 1966 and his doctorate at Ralph Phillips, 1968 ( On the self- adjointness of quantum fields and Hamiltonians ). From 1968 he was instructor and later Assistant Professor at Princeton University, and he has been since 1974 professor at Duke University, where until 1989 he headed the mathematics faculty in 1982 and since 1986 director of the Center for Mathematics and Computation in Life Science and Medicine had.
It deals with non-linear harmonic analysis and partial differential equations, especially scattering theory and propagation of singularities, and is the co- author of a series of four monographs on mathematical physics with Barry Simon, a standard work.
Reed but is primarily concerned with the use of mathematics in biology and medicine and problems of analysis that arise from it. For example, he examined with the biologist Fred Nijhout control mechanisms for the metabolism of the cell and especially methionine, folic acid and glutathione in the liver with application to the explanation of various diseases and poisoning mechanisms. They also studied the metabolism of dopamine and serotonin in the brain with mathematical models. Other applications were the auditory nervous system of mammals, the optical system of the brain owls, models of the formation of the luteinizing hormone and follicle stimulating hormone in the pituitary gland, models of interaction fetus - mother and models of insect metabolism.
In 2012 he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. 1974 to 1980 he was editor of the Duke Journal of Mathematics.
He has been married since 1992 and has four children.
Writings
- Why is mathematical biology so hard? , Notices AMS, 2004, No.3, pdf
- With Barry Simon Methods of Mathematical Physics, 4 volumes, Academic Press 1972-1977