John Guckenheimer
Mathematician, Academic
1945 –
Who is John Guckenheimer?
John Guckenheimer joined the Department of Mathematics at Cornell University in 1985. He was previously at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1984, and was elected president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and served as president 1997-1998. Guckenheimer received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1966 and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1970. His Ph.D. thesis advisor was Stephen Smale.
His book Nonlinear Oscillations, Dynamical Systems and Bifurcation of Vector Fields is an extensively cited work on dynamical systems.
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- Born
- Sep 26, 1945
Baton Rouge - Also known as
- John Mark Guckenheimer
- Dr. John Guckenheimer
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University
( - 1966) - PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Mathematics
( - 1970)
- Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University
- Employment
- Cornell University
- Lived in
- New York
(1985 - ) - United States of America
- New York
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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