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Born | Joseph Pierre LaSalle May 28, 1916 State College, Pennsylvania, United States |
Died | July 7, 1983 Little Compton, Rhode Island, United States | (aged 67)
Alma mater | California Institute of Technology |
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Fields | Mathematics, Dynamical Systems, Control theory |
Institutions | University of Notre Dame, RIAS, Brown University |
Doctoral advisor | A.D.Michal[3] |
Joseph Pierre LaSalle (born 28 May 1916 in State College, Pennsylvania; died 7 July 1983 in Little Compton, Rhode Island) was an American mathematician specialising in dynamical systems and responsible for important contributions to stability theory, such as LaSalle's invariance principle which bears his name.