Jerrold E. Marsden

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Jerrold Eldon Marsden (August 17, 1942 in Ocean Falls, British Columbia, Canada), is an American applied mathematician. He is 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.^[1]

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

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.

In 1981 Marsden won the Jeffery-Williams Prize and in 2000 he was awarded the Max Planck Research Award for Mathematics and Computer science.^[2] In 2006 he was elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society.^[3] In the same year, he also received an honorary doctorate from the University of Surrey.^[4]

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• 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).

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[edit] External links

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