Renfrey Potts
Mathematician, Academic
1925 – 2005
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Who was Renfrey Potts?
Renfrey Burnard Potts AO, BSc, D Phil, DSc, FAA, FTSE, FACS, FAustMS was an Australian mathematician and is notable for the Potts model and his achievements in: operations research, especially networks; transportation science, car-following and road traffic; Ising-type models in mathematical physics; difference equations; and robotics. He was interested in computing from the early days of the computing revolution and oversaw the first computer purchases at the University of Adelaide.
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- Born
- Oct 4, 1925
Adelaide - Nationality
- Australia
- Profession
- Education
- University of Adelaide
- University of Oxford
- Employment
- University of Adelaide
- Lived in
- Adelaide
- Australia
- Died
- Aug 9, 2005
Adelaide
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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