Meinhard E. Mayer

Who is Meinhard E. Mayer?

Meinhard E. Mayer was a Romanian–born American Professor Emeritus of Physics and Mathematics at the University of California, Irvine, which he joined in 1966.

Born in Cernăuți, he experienced both the Soviet occupation of Northern Bukovina and, as a Jew, deportation to the Transnistria Governorate. He received his Ph.D from the University of Bucharest in 1957, where he taught until 1961.

His research interests range from geometric methods in gauge theory, to the application of wavelets in turbulence. He was an early contributor to the theory of vector-bosons and electro-weak unification, which later became the Standard model, and an early advocate of the use of fiber bundles in gauge theory.

He was a co-author of Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2001 ISBN 0-262-19455-4