Jerrold E. Marsden
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Jerrold Eldon Marsden (August 17, 1942 in Ocean Falls, British Columbia, Canada), is a well-known mathematician.
He gained his B.Sc. in Mathematics at the University of Toronto and his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1968. Thereafter, he has worked at various universities and research institutes in the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. Today he is the is Carl F. Braun Professor of Engineering and Control & Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology.
Professor Marsden, together with Vladimir Arnold and Alan Weinstein, is one of the world leading authorities in mathematical and theoretical classical mechanics. He has laid much of the foundation for symplectic topology. He had the Marsden-Weinstein quotient named after him.
[edit] External links
- Jerrold E. Marsden at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- J E. Marsden's webpage
- Laudation Max Planck Research Award
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