Jerrold E. Marsden

Jerrold E. Marsden
Born	August 17, 1942 Ocean Falls, British Columbia
Died	September 21, 2010 (aged 68) Pasadena, California
Nationality	Canadian
Fields	Mathematics Classical mechanics
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley California Institute of Technology
Alma mater	University of Toronto Princeton University
Doctoral advisor	Arthur Wightman
Known for	Classical mechanics

Jerrold Eldon Marsden (August 17, 1942 – September 21, 2010), was an applied mathematician. He was the Carl F. Braun Professor of Engineering and Control & Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology.^[1] Marsden is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.^[2]

Career

Marsden earned his B.Sc. in Mathematics at the University of Toronto and his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1968. Thereafter, he has worked at various universities and research institutes in the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. He was one of the founders of the Fields Institute in Toronto, Canada, and directed it until 1994; at the California Institute of Technology he was the Carl F. Braun Professor of Engineering and Control & Dynamical Systems.^[1]

Marsden, together with Alan Weinstein, was one of the world leading authorities in mathematical and theoretical classical mechanics. He has laid much of the foundation for symplectic topology. He had the Marsden-Weinstein quotient named after him.

In 1981, Marsden won the Jeffery-Williams Prize. And in 1990, he received the Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics, jointly awarded by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Marsden was honoured "for his outstanding contributions to the study of differential equations in mechanics: he proved the existence of chaos in specific classical differential equations; his work on the momentum map, from abstract foundations to detailed applications, has had great impact."^[3] He was also awarded the Max Planck Research Award for Mathematics and Computer science in 2000.^[4] In 2005, he won the prestigious John von Neumann Lecture,^[5] which is awarded by SIAM to recognize outstanding contributions to the field of applied mathematical sciences and for their effective communication to the community. In 2006 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.^[6] In the same year, he also received an honorary doctorate from the University of Surrey.^[7]

Books

• J. E. Marsden and A. Weinstein, Calculus Unlimited, Benjamin/Cummings (1981).
• J. E. Marsden and A. Weinstein, Calculus, I, II, III', 2nd ed., Springer-Verlag (1985).
• J. E. Marsden, A. Tromba, and A. Weinstein, Basic Multivariable Calculus, Springer-Verlag (1992).
• J. E. Marsden and A. Tromba, Vector Calculus, 5th ed., W. H. Freeman (2003).
• J. E. Marsden and M. Hoffman, Elementary Classical Analysis, 2nd ed., W. H. Freeman (1993)
• J. E. Marsden and M. Hoffman, Basic Complex Analysis, 3rd ed., W. H. Freeman (1998).
• A. J. Chorin and J. E. Marsden, A Mathematical Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, 3rd ed., Springer-Verlag (1993).
• J. E. Marsden, Applications of Global Analysis in Mathematical Physics, Lecture Note Series, UC Berkeley Mathematics (1976).
• J. E. Marsden and M. McCracken, The Hopf Bifurcation and Its Applications, Applied Mathematical Sciences, 19 Springer-Verlag (1976).
• R. Abraham and J. E. Marsden, Foundations of Mechanics, 2nd ed., Addison–Wesley (1987).
• R. Abraham, J. E. Marsden, and T. S. Ratiu, Manifolds, Tensor Analysis, and Applications, Springer-Verlag (1988).
• J. E. Marsden, Lectures on Mechanics, Cambridge University Press (1992). 1st edition, 1989.^[8]
• J. E. Marsden and T. J. R. Hughes, Mathematical Foundations of Elasticity, Prentice Hall (1983); Reprinted by Dover Publications (1994).
• J. E. Marsden and T. S. Ratiu, Introduction to Mechanics and Symmetry, Texts in Applied Mathematics, vol. 17, Springer-Verlag (1994).^[9]
• J. E. Marsden, G. Misiolek, J.-P. Ortega, M. Perlmutter, and T. S. Ratiu, Hamiltonian Reduction by Stages, Springer-Verlag (2007).

References

1. "Jerrold Marsden: Mathematician at Caltech". Los Angeles Times: AA6. October 13, 2010.
2. Thomson ISI. "Marsden, Jerrold E., ISI Highly Cited Researchers". Retrieved 2009-06-20.
3. "Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2009-11-02.
4. Max Planck Society: Award winners 2000. URL last accessed 2007-08-24.
5. The John von Neumann Lecture, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics http://www.siam.org/prizes/sponsored/vonneumann.php
6. Royal Society: . URL last accessed 2010-10-02.
7. University of Surrey: Doctor of the University. URL last accessed 2008-10-17.
8. Atiyah, Michael (1994). "Review: Lectures on mechanics by Jerrold Marsden" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 30 (2): 234–237. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1994-00470-7.
9. Ashbaugh, Mark S. (1996). "Review of Introduction to mechanics and symmetry: A basic exposition of classical mechanical systems by Jerrold Marsden and Tudor S. Ratiu" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 33 (3): 351–353. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-96-00671-4.

External links

• Jerrold E. Marsden at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• J E. Marsden's webpage
• Laudation Max Planck Research Award