Neil Trudinger

Neil Sidney Trudinger ( born June 20, 1942 in Ballarat, Australia) is an Australian mathematician who deals with partial differential equations.

Trudinger studied at the University of New England in Australia and received his PhD in 1966 from Stanford University with David Gilbarg ( Quasi Linear Elliptical Partial Differential Equations in n Variables ). Subsequently he was a post- doctoral fellow at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University, in 1967 at the University of Pisa, from 1968 to 1970 at Macquarie University in Australia, at the University of Queensland and 1971 at the University of Minnesota and Stanford University before he was at the Australian National University in Canberra from 1973 professor, where he taught since then. 1989 to 1993 he was also professor at Northwestern University. 1973 to 1980 he was Director of the Department of Pure Mathematics, 1982-1990 Director of the Commonwealth Research Center for Mathematical Analysis and 1992 to 2000 he was dean of the Mathematics Department in Canberra. He was a visiting professor at various universities in Asia, Europe and the United States.

Trudinger is a member of the Australian Academy of Sciences and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. In 1981 he was awarded the first Medal of the Australian Mathematical Society and received the 1996 the Hannan Medal of the Australian Academy of Science. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

In 2008 he received for his book with Gilbarg on the theory ( nonlinear ) elliptic partial differential equations the Leroy P. Steele Prize. In 2006 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid ( Recent developments in elliptic partial differential equations of Monge - Ampere type). In 2012, he received the George Szekeres Medal awarded.

Writings

• David Gilbarg: Elliptic partial differential equations of second order, Springer 1977, ISBN 3-540-41160-7