Roger Fletcher (mathematician)

Roger Fletcher FRS FRSE (c. 1939 – 15 July 2016)^[1] was a British mathematician and professor at University of Dundee.^[2] He was a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)^[3] and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2003.^[4]

In 2006, he won the Lagrange Prize from SIAM.^[5] In 2008, he was awarded a Royal Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.^[6]

See also

• BFGS method
• Davidon–Fletcher–Powell formula

Bibliography

• Practical methods of optimization, Wiley, 1987, ISBN 978-0-471-91547-8; Wiley, 2000, ISBN 978-0-471-49463-8

References

1. Tributes paid to Professor Roger Fletcher
2. "Division of Mathematics". Maths.dundee.ac.uk. Retrieved 2014-07-26.
3. "names 194 Fellows for key contributions to applied mathematics and computational science". SIAM. Retrieved 2014-07-26.
4. "Fellows". royalsociety.org. 2003. Retrieved 2015-04-21.
5. "Math News". Dm.unito.it. Retrieved 2014-07-26.
6. "Division of Mathematics". Maths.dundee.ac.uk. 2008-08-11. Retrieved 2014-07-26.