Ian Sneddon

Ian Sneddon
Born	Ian Naismith Sneddon 8 December 1919
Died	4 November 2000 (aged 80)
Doctoral students	Morton Lowengrub Anthony Spencer[1] John Welch[2]
Notable awards	FRS[3] Eringen Medal (1979)

Ian Naismith Sneddon FRS^[3] (8 December 1919 Glasgow, Scotland – 4 November 2000 Glasgow, Scotland) was a Scottish mathematician who worked on analysis and applied mathematics.^[4][5]

Research

Sneddon's research was published widely including:

• with Nevill Mott: Wave mechanics and its applications, 1948
• Fourier transforms, 1951^[6]
• Special functions of mathematical physics and chemistry, 1956^[7]
• Elements of partial differential equations, 1957^[8]
• with James George Defares: An introduction to the mathematics of medicine and biology, 1960^[9]
• Mixed boundary problems in potential theory, 1966
• Lectures on transform methods, 1967
• with Morton Lowengrub: Crack problems in the classical theory of elasticity, 1969
• The use of integral transforms, 1972
• The linear theory of thermoelasticity, 1974
• Encyclopaedic dictionary of mathematics for engineers and applied scientists, 1976
• The use of operators of fractional integration in applied mathematics, 1979
• with E. L. Ince: The solution of ordinary differential equations, 1987

Awards and honours

Sneddon received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1982 ^[10]

Sneddon was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1983.^[3]

References

1. Chadwick, P.; England, A. H.; Parker, D. F. (2015). "Anthony James Merrill Spencer 23 August 1929 — 26 January 2008". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. Royal Society publishing. 61. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2015.0003. ISSN 0080-4606.
2. Ian Sneddon at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
3. Chadwick, P. (2002). "Ian Naismith Sneddon, O.B.E. 8 December 1919 - 4 November 2000". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 48: 417. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2002.0025.
4. McBride, Adam (15 Jan 2001). "Death of I. N. Sneddon". OP-SF NET.
5. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Ian Sneddon", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
6. Heins, Albert E. (1952). "Review: I. Sneddon, Fourier transforms". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 58 (4): 512–513. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1952-09636-1.
7. Cohen, E. Richard (1956). "Review: Special functions of mathematical physics and chemistry". Physics Today. 9 (11): 46. doi:10.1063/1.3059825.
8. Polkinghorne, J. C. (1957). "Review: Elements of partial differential equations". Physics Today. 10 (5): 36. doi:10.1063/1.3060371.
9. Jones, D. S. (1961). "Review: An introduction to the mathematics of medicine and biology". Proc. Edinburgh Math. Soc. 12 (3): 166–167. doi:10.1017/S0013091500002911.
10. [email protected]. "Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh: Honorary Graduates". www1.hw.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-04-05.