Paul Glendinning

Paul Glendinning (* before 1964 ) is a British mathematician who deals with dynamical systems. He is a professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Manchester.

He is the son of writer and biographer Victoria Glendinning (* 1937). It was established in 1985 at the University of Cambridge (King 's College ) with Nigel Weiss PhD (Homo Clinic Bifurcations ). As a post - graduate student, he was at the University of Warwick and then at King's College, Cambridge, and from 1987 at Gonville and Caius College. He became a professor at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London and in 2000 at the University of Manchester (then University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UMIST ) in 1996. 2003 to 2008 he was CEO of Mathematics Faculty. 2011-2012 he was Acting Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Computational and Dynamical Analysis ( CICADA ), University of Manchester.

He is particularly concerned with bifurcations of maps and flows ( and especially global bifurcations ), Strange Attractors, forced quasi-periodic systems, synchronization of oscillators ( and occurring phenomena such as Blowout Bifurcations ), low-dimensional figures ( such as the classical one-dimensional interval illustrations from the fig tree scenario).

In 1992 he was awarded the Adams Prize ( Chaos and routes to chaos in Lorenz maps).

2011 to 2013 he was Vice President of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.

Writings

  • Stability, instability, and chaos: an introduction to the theory of nonlinear differential equations, Cambridge University Press 1994
  • Math in minutes: 200 key concepts Explained in to instant, Quercus 2013
  • Editor with JC Robinson: From finite to infinite dimensional dynamical systems, Kluwer 2001
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