Ernie Tuck

Ernie Tuck
Born (1939-06-01)1 June 1939
Adelaide, South Australia
Died 11 March 2009(2009-03-11) (aged 69)
Adelaide, South Australia
Residence Australia
Nationality Australian
Fields Applied mathematics
Institutions The University of Adelaide
Alma mater University of Adelaide
Cambridge University
Doctoral advisor Fritz Ursell
Doctoral students Over 30 students, including:
Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck
Lawrence K. Forbes
Peter Taylor
John Noye
Tim Gourlay
David Scullen
David Standingford
Yvonne Stokes
Leo Lazauskas
Known for Tuck's incompressibility function
Tuck Fellowship[1]
Ship Motion Program
Notable awards Georg Weinblum Lectureship (1990)
Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal (1999)
ANZIAM Medal (1999)

Professor Ernest Oliver (Ernie) Tuck BSc (Hons)(Adel), PhD (Camb), FAA, FTSE, FACS, FAustMS was an Australian applied mathematician, notable for his sustained work in ship hydrodynamics, and for Tuck's incompressibility function.[2]

Early life and education

Tuck was born on 1 June 1939 in Adelaide, South Australia. He studied Applied Mathematics for his undergraduate degree at the University of Adelaide, where his principal mentor was Professor R. B. Potts. In 1960, he studied with Fritz Ursell at Cambridge University for his PhD. His PhD thesis was on the application of slender-body theory to ships. In it, he made a revolutionary approach of using matched asymptotic expansions in order to predict the wave resistance of a slender ship.[3]

Career

In 1963 Tuck went to the United States to work with Francis Ogilvie and John Nicholas Newman at the David Taylor Model Basin, and subsequently with Ted Wu at Caltech. He worked on topics related to ship hydrodynamics, acoustics, bio-fluid mechanics, and numerical analysis. Tuck returned to Adelaide University in 1968 as a Reader in Applied Mathematics, and was subsequently appointed the (Sir Thomas) Elder Professor of Mathematics. From 1984 to 1992 he served as Editor of Series B (Applied Mathematics) of the Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society. In 1992 he established TeXAdel, an organization responsible for automating the production of the AMS journals. He served as President of the IUTAM Congress in 2008. He has been a Visiting Professor at Caltech, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and MIT. Apart from applied mathematics, in his later years he also worked on problems in pure mathematics related to Riemann hypothesis and properties of the zeta function.[3]

Summary

Publications

He published over 180 papers covering a wide range of topics in:

Notable students

Peter Taylor (PhD 1972), Max Haselgrove (PhD 1974), Lyn Martin (MSc 1975), Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck (PhD 1978), Charles Macaskill (PhD 1978), Arye Helfgott (PhD 1978), Elizabeth Casling (PhD 1979), Graeme King (PhD 1979), Larry Forbes (PhD 1981), Graeme Hocking (PhD 1986), David Standingford (PhD 1997), Yvonne Stokes (PhD 1998), David Scullen (PhD 1998), Michael Haese (PhD 2003), Anna Dostovalova (PhD 2003), Nathaniel Jewell (Hons 2001), Leo Lazauskas (MSc 2005, PhD 2009)

Personal

Survived by wife Helen (née Wood), two sons Warren and Geoff, and their grandchildren.He and his wife shared a strong interest in backgammon, and other games of chance.

External links

References

  1. "The Tuck Fellowship". IWWWFB. Retrieved 2010-12-04.
  2. M.V. Berry and P. Shukla, "Tuck's incompressibility function: statistics for zeta zeros and eigenvalues", Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 41 (2008) 385202
  3. 1 2 J. N. Newman (13 April 2009). "Ernest Oliver Tuck" (PDF). Retrieved 2009-12-30.
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