Jerrold E. Marsden

Jerrold E. Marsden
Born	17 August 1942 Template:City-state
Died	21 September 2010
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	University of Toronto Princeton University
Known for	Classical mechanics
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics Classical mechanics
Institutions	California Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor	Arthur Wightman

Jerrold Eldon Marsden (b. August 17, 1942 in Ocean Falls, British Columbia, Canada, d. September 21, 2010 in Pasadena, California), was an applied mathematician. He was the Carl F. Braun Professor of Engineering and Control & Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology. Marsden is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.

Career

Marsden earned 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. He was the Carl F. Braun Professor of Engineering and Control & Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology.

Marsden, together with Alan Weinstein, was 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.

In 1981, Marsden won the Jeffery-Williams Prize. And in 1990, he received the Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics, jointly awarded by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Marsden was honoured "for his outstanding contributions to the study of differential equations in mechanics: he proved the existence of chaos in specific classical differential equations; his work on the momentum map, from abstract foundations to detailed applications, has had great impact." He was also awarded the Max Planck Research Award for Mathematics and Computer science in 2000. In 2005, he won the prestigious John von Neumann Lecture, which is awarded by SIAM to recognize outstanding contributions to the field of applied mathematical sciences and for their effective communication to the community. In 2006 he was elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society. In the same year, he also received an honorary doctorate from the University of Surrey.

Books

• J. E. Marsden and A. Weinstein, Calculus Unlimited, Benjamin/Cummings (1981).
• J. E. Marsden and A. Weinstein, Calculus, I, II, III', 2nd ed., Springer-Verlag (1985).
• J. E. Marsden, A. Tromba, and A. Weinstein, Basic Multivariable Calculus, Springer-Verlag (1992).
• J. E. Marsden and A. Tromba, Vector Calculus, 5th ed., W. H. Freeman (2003).
• J. E. Marsden and M. Hoffman, Elementary Classical Analysis, 2nd ed., W. H. Freeman (1993)
• J. E. Marsden and M. Hoffman, Basic Complex Analysis, 3rd ed., W. H. Freeman (1998).
• A. J. Chorin and J. E. Marsden, A Mathematical Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, 3rd ed., Springer-Verlag (1993).
• J. E. Marsden, Applications of Global Analysis in Mathematical Physics, Lecture Note Series, UC Berkeley Mathematics (1976).
• J. E. Marsden and M. McCracken, The Hopf Bifurcation and Its Applications, Applied Mathematical Sciences, 19 Springer-Verlag (1976).
• R. Abraham and J. E. Marsden, Foundations of Mechanics, 2nd ed., Addison–Wesley (1987).
• R. Abraham, J. E. Marsden, and T. S. Ratiu, Manifolds, Tensor Analysis, and Applications, Springer-Verlag (1988).
• J. E. Marsden, Lectures on Mechanics, Cambridge University Press (1992).
• J. E. Marsden and T. J. R. Hughes, Mathematical Foundations of Elasticity, Prentice Hall (1983); Reprinted by Dover Publications (1994).
• J. E. Marsden and T. S. Ratiu, Introduction to Mechanics and Symmetry, Texts in Applied Mathematics, vol. 17, Springer-Verlag (1994).
• J. E. Marsden, G. Misiolek, J.-P. Ortega, M. Perlmutter, and T. S. Ratiu, Hamiltonian Reduction by Stages, Springer-Verlag (2007).

External links

• Jerrold E. Marsden at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• J E. Marsden's webpage
• Laudation Max Planck Research Award