| RefNo | EC/2006/26 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Marsden, Jerrold Eldon: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Certificate of Election |
| Citation | Marsden is an extraordinarily prolific mathematician of the highest class, with fundamental contributions to a very wide range of topics such as Hamiltonian systems, fluid mechanics, plasma physics, general relativity, dynamical systems and chaos, nonlinear elasticity, nonholonomic mechanics, control theory, variational integrators and solar system mission design. In addition he has written fifteen books, ranging from excellent undergraduate texts on real and complex analysis to important research monographs such as the Mathematical Foundations of Elasticity with Hughes. Among many accomplishments are his famous work with Ebin on the Euler equations and zero-viscosity limit of the Navier-Stokes equations, the development with Weinstein and Scheurle of symplectic and Lagrangian reduction theories, his analysis with Chillingworth and Wan of bifurcations in the zero traction problem of nonlinear elastostatics, and his exploitation of block diagonalization as a tool for studying stability for elastic, fluid and plasma equations. Recent research concerns work with others on the averaged Euler equations and on the discovery of new heteroclinic connections for the three body problem that make possible associated NASA missions to the moons of Jupiter. |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
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| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA9224 | Marsden; Jerrold Eldon (1942 - 2010) | 1942 - 2010 |