Philip Holmes

Philip John Holmes ( born May 24, 1945 in Lincolnshire ) is an American Applied mathematicians, which deals with non-linear mechanics and dynamical systems.

Holmes graduated from Oxford University with a bachelor's degree in 1967 and in 1974 received his doctorate in civil engineering from the University of Southampton. In 1977 he was Assistant Professor and in 1984 Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at Cornell University, most recently as Charles N. Mellowes Professor of Engineering and Mathematics. 1981 to 1986 he was head of the Center for Applied Mathematics. Since 1994 he is a professor at Princeton University. He is there Eugene Higgins Professor for Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering and Applied and Computational Mathematics ( Applied and Computational Mathematics ). 1994-1997 and 2010/ 11, he was director of the program of Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton.

1988/89 he was a Fairchild Scholar at Caltech. 1985/86 he was Aisenstadt professor at the University of Montreal. In 2000 he was visiting professor at the Erdos mathematics center in Budapest.

It deals with the mathematical theory of dynamical systems with application in non-linear mechanics of liquids and solids, nonlinear oscillations, Hamiltonian mechanics and mathematical biology.

Since 1989 he is the editor of the Journal of Nonlinear Science and since 1986 the Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis. 1984 to 1989 he was editor of the SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics.

He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1994 ) and honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( 2001).

In 2013 he was awarded with John Guckenheimer the Leroy P. Steele Prize for her book on dynamical systems, which on its appearance a bridge between mathematicians, physicists and engineers suggested in the presentation of itself since the 1960s rapidly developing theory (keywords are chaos theory, catastrophe theory ).

He also published four volumes of poetry and wrote a book on the historical roots of chaos theory, for example, Henri Poincaré with Florin Diacu. At Princeton, he also developed by Ingrid Daubechies a mathematics course for non-mathematicians (Math Alive ).

He has been married since 1970 and has four children. Holmes is an American citizen.

Writings

  • With John Guckenheimer Nonlinear Oscillations, Dynamical Systems and Bifurcations of Vector Fields, Springer Verlag 1983, new edition 1990
  • With John L. Lumley, Gal Berkooz Turbulence, Coherent Structures, Dynamical Systems and Symmetry, Cambridge University Press 1996, 2nd edition 2012 ( with Clarence W. Rowley )
  • Robert Ghrist, Michael Sullivan, Knots, Links and Three-dimensional flows, Springer Verlag 1997
  • Florin Diacu Celestial Encounters: The Origins of Chaos and Stability, Princeton University Press 1996
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