Barry Simon

Mathematician, Author

1946 –

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Who is Barry Simon?

Barry Martin Simon is an American mathematical physicist and the IBM Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Caltech, known for his prolific contributions in spectral theory, functional analysis, and nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, including the connections to atomic and molecular physics. He has authored more than 400 publications on mathematics and physics.

His work has focused on broad areas of mathematical physics and analysis covering: quantum field theory, statistical mechanics, Brownian motion, random matrix theory, general nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, nonrelativistic quantum mechanics in electric and magnetic fields, the semi-classical limit, the singular continuous spectrum, random and ergodic Schrödinger operators, orthogonal polynomials, and non-selfadjoint spectral theory.

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

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Born
Apr 16, 1946
New York City
Spouses
Religion
  • Orthodox Judaism
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • PhD, Princeton University
    Physics
    ( - 1970)
  • Harvard University
  • Harvard College
Employment
  • California Institute of Technology
  • Princeton University
Lived in
  • California
    (1980 - )

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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