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American mathematician
James Burton Serrin (1 November 1926,
Chicago, Illinois – 23 August 2012,
Minneapolis, Minnesota ) was an American
mathematician , and a professor at
University of Minnesota .
[1]
Life
He received his doctorate from
Indiana University in 1951 under the supervision of
David Gilbarg .
[2] From 1954 till 1995 he was on the faculty of the
University of Minnesota .
[2]
[3]
[4]
Work
He is known for his contributions to
continuum mechanics ,
nonlinear analysis,
[5] and
partial differential equations .
[6]
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Awards and honors
He was elected a member of the
National Academy of Sciences in 1980.
Selected works
Serrin, James (1959), "Mathematical principles of classical fluid mechanics", in
Flügge, Siegfried ;
Truesdell, Clifford A. (eds.), Fluid Dynamics I/Strömungsmechanik I , Handbuch der Physik (Encyclopedia of Physics), vol. VIII/1, Berlin–
Heidelberg –New York:
Springer-Verlag , pp. 125–263,
Bibcode :
1959HDP.....8..125S ,
doi :
10.1007/978-3-642-45914-6_2 ,
MR
0108116 ,
Zbl
0102.40503 .
Serrin, James (1959b), "On the Uniqueness of Compressible Fluid Motions",
Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis , 3 (1): 271–288,
Bibcode :
1959ArRMA...3..271S ,
doi :
10.1007/BF00284180 ,
ISSN
0003-9527 ,
MR
0106646 ,
S2CID
120478897 ,
Zbl
0089.19103 .
Serrin, James (1963),
"The initial Value problem for the Navier-Stokes equations" , in Langer, Rudolph E. (ed.), Nonlinear problems. Proceedings of a symposium conducted by the Mathematics Research Center, United States Army, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 30-May 2, 1962. ,
Madison :
The University of Wisconsin Press , pp. 69–98,
hdl :
2027/uc1.b3836930 ,
MR
0150444 ,
Zbl
0115.08502 .
References
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"James B. Serrin Obituary: View James Serrin's Obituary by Star Tribune" . Legacy.com. 2012-08-31. Retrieved 2012-12-09 .
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a
b
James Serrin at the
Mathematics Genealogy Project
^ P. Pucci, "An Appreciation of James Serrin", in Buttazzo, Giuseppe; Serrin, J. (1998). Nonlinear analysis and continuum mechanics: papers for the 65th birthday of James Serrin . Berlin: Springer.
ISBN
0-387-98296-5 .
^ O'Connor, John J.;
Robertson, Edmund F. ,
"James Burton Serrin" ,
MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive ,
University of St Andrews
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Serrin, J. (1964).
"Local behavior of solutions of quasi-linear equations" . Acta Mathematica . 111 : 247–302.
doi :
10.1007/BF02391014 .
^
"Homepage of James Serrin" . Archived from
the original on 2012-03-09. Retrieved 2012-01-31 .
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Serrin, J. (1971). "A symmetry problem in potential theory". Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis . 43 (4): 304–318.
Bibcode :
1971ArRMA..43..304S .
doi :
10.1007/BF00250468 .
S2CID
120079938 .
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Serrin, J. (1962). "On the interior regularity of weak solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations". Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis . 9 (1): 187–195.
Bibcode :
1962ArRMA...9..187S .
doi :
10.1007/BF00253344 .
hdl :
2027/mdp.39015095249564 .
S2CID
122802358 .
External links
See also
International National Academics Other