Peter J. Olver

Peter J. Olver
Born January 11, 1952 (1952-01-11) (age 64)
Middlesex, England
Nationality American (1967)
Fields Mathematics
Institutions University of Chicago
University of Oxford
University of Maryland
University of Minnesota
Alma mater Brown University
Harvard University[1]
Doctoral advisor Garrett Birkhoff[1]
Doctoral students 17 students[1]
Known for Symmetry groups of partial differential equations

Peter John Olver is an American mathematician whose primary research interests involve the applications of symmetry and Lie groups to differential equations. He has been a full professor at the University of Minnesota since 1985[2] and is currently head of their mathematics department.[3] In 2003, Olver was one of the top 240 most cited mathematicians in the world.[4]

In 2014, Olver became a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics for "developing new geometric methods for differential equations leading to applications in fluid mechanics, elasticity, quantum mechanics, and image processing.".[5] In addition, Olver is an elected fellow of the Institute of Physics and a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[2][6]

Olver is a prolific author, having written over 200 academic papers as of 2015. Of these, 137 have appeared or will appear in major refereed journals, 46 have appeared in conference proceedings and seven have appeared as appendices and chapters in books.[2][7] Olver has an Erdős number of three.[8]

Books

References

  1. 1 2 3 Peter Olver at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. 1 2 3 Peter J. Olver. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved December 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  3. University of Minnesota. "Faculty". Retrieved December 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  4. University of Minnesota. "How do we rank?". Retrieved December 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  5. SIAM. "SIAM Fellows: Class of 2014". Retrieved December 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  6. AMS. "List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". Retrieved December 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  7. zbMATH. "Olver, Peter J.". Retrieved 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  8. MathSciNet. "Collaboration Distance". Retrieved December 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
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