John Guckenheimer

John Mark Guckenheimer
Born1945
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University (AB)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Known forDynamical systems
Bifurcation theory
AwardsLeroy P. Steele Prize (2013)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Santa Cruz
Cornell University
Doctoral advisorStephen Smale

John Mark Guckenheimer (born 1945) joined the Department of Mathematics at Cornell University in 1985. He was previously at the University of California, Santa Cruz (1973-1985). He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1984, and was elected president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), serving from 1997 to 1998.[1] Guckenheimer received his A.B. in 1966 from Harvard and his Ph.D. in 1970 from Berkeley, where his Ph.D. thesis advisor was Stephen Smale.[2][3]

His book Nonlinear Oscillations, Dynamical Systems and Bifurcation of Vector Fields (with Philip Holmes) is an extensively cited work on dynamical systems.

  1. ^ SIAM Presidents http://www.siam.org/about/more/presidents.php
  2. ^ John Guckenheimer. "John Guckenheimer, Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical and Applied Mechanics". Cornell University. Archived from the original on 2008-04-20. Retrieved 2008-03-31.
  3. ^ John Guckenheimer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project