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American mathematician (born 1952)
Peter John Olver (11 January 1952,
Twickenham ) is a British-American mathematician working in
differential geometry .
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Education and career
After moving to the USA in 1961, Olver obtained a bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics at
Brown University in 1973 and a PhD in Mathematics at
Harvard University in 1976. His PhD thesis was entitled "Symmetry Groups of Partial Differential Equations" and has been written under the supervision of
Garrett Birkhoff .
[2]
He worked as a
L.E. Dickson Instructor in Mathematics at
University of Chicago (1976-1978) and as a research fellow at
University of Oxford (1978-1980). He then moved to
University of Minnesota as assistant professor, and he became full professor in the same university in 1985. Between 1992 and 1993 he was professor at
University of Maryland .
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Olver was member of the board of directors of
Foundations of Computational Mathematics from 2002 to 2014.
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[6] He was elected fellow of the
American Mathematical Society in 2013
[7] and of the
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2014, for "developing new geometric methods for differential equations leading to applications in fluid mechanics, elasticity, quantum mechanics, and image processing ."
[8] Olver is also member of
International Society for the Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics
[9] and an elected fellow of the
Institute of Physics .
[3]
Research
Olver's primary research fields are
differential geometry and
mathematical physics . His main interests involve the application of
Lie groups and
symmetries to the geometry of
differential equations ,
[10]
[11]
[12] as well as well the theories of
moving frames and
Cartan's equivalence method ,
[13]
[14]
differential invariants
[15] and
pseudogroups .
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He has also contributed to various topics in
applied mathematics , including
image processing and
computer vision ,
[18]
[19]
[20]
wave and
fluid mechanics ,
[21]
[22] and
elasticity .
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He has written five books and over 150 research papers in peer-reviewed journals.
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[26] In 2003, Olver was one of the top 234 most cited mathematicians in the world.
[1]
[27] He has supervised 23 PhD students.
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[3]
Books
Olver, P. J. (1986), Applications of Lie Groups to Differential Equations , Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol. 107, Springer,
doi :
10.1007/978-1-4684-0274-2 ,
ISBN
0387940073
Olver, Peter J.; Sattinger, David H., eds. (1990).
Solitons in Physics, Mathematics, and Nonlinear Optics . New York, NY: Springer New York.
ISBN
978-1-4613-9033-6 .
OCLC
852788413 .
Olver, P. J. (1995), Equivalence, Invariants and Symmetry , Cambridge University Press,
doi :
10.1017/CBO9780511609565 ,
ISBN
0521101042
Olver, P. J. (1999), Classical Invariant Theory , Cambridge University Press,
doi :
10.1017/CBO9780511623660 ,
ISBN
0521558212
Olver, Peter J.; Tannenbaum, Allen, eds. (2003).
Mathematical methods in computer vision . New York: Springer.
ISBN
0-387-00497-1 .
OCLC
51553365 .
Olver, P. J. (2014), Introduction to Partial Differential Equations , Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer,
doi :
10.1007/978-3-319-02099-0 ,
ISBN
978-3319020983 ,
S2CID
220617008
Olver, P. J.; Shakiban, C. (2018), Applied Linear Algebra , Springer,
doi :
10.1007/978-3-319-91041-3 ,
ISBN
978-0131473829
References
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"Peter Olver | AMAAZE" . amaaze.umn.edu . Retrieved 2021-11-28 .
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Peter Olver at the
Mathematics Genealogy Project
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c Peter J. Olver.
"Curriculum Vitae" (PDF) . Retrieved 19 June 2017 .
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"FoCM • Foundations of Computational Mathematics • Governance" . focm-society.org . Retrieved 2021-11-28 .
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"FoCM • Foundations of Computational Mathematics • Governance" . focm-society.org . Retrieved 2021-11-28 .
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"FoCM • Foundations of Computational Mathematics • Governance" . focm-society.org . Retrieved 2021-11-28 .
^ AMS.
"List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society" . Retrieved 19 June 2017 .
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"SIAM > Prizes & Recognition > Fellows Program > All SIAM Fellows > Class of 2014" . www.siam.org . Retrieved 2021-11-28 .
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"ISIMM Home Page" . isimm.unipg.it . Retrieved 2021-11-28 .
^ Olver, Peter J. (1977-06-01).
"Evolution equations possessing infinitely many symmetries" . Journal of Mathematical Physics . 18 (6): 1212–1215.
Bibcode :
1977JMP....18.1212O .
doi :
10.1063/1.523393 .
ISSN
0022-2488 .
^ Olver, Peter J.; Rosenau, Philip (1986-02-10).
"The construction of special solutions to partial differential equations" . Physics Letters A . 114 (3): 107–112.
Bibcode :
1986PhLA..114..107O .
doi :
10.1016/0375-9601(86)90534-7 .
ISSN
0375-9601 .
^ Olver, Peter J.; Rosenau, Philip (1987-04-01).
"Group-Invariant Solutions of Differential Equations" . SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics . 47 (2): 263–278.
doi :
10.1137/0147018 .
ISSN
0036-1399 .
^ Fels, Mark; Olver, Peter J. (1998-04-01).
"Moving Coframes: I. A Practical Algorithm" . Acta Applicandae Mathematicae . 51 (2): 161–213.
doi :
10.1023/A:1005878210297 .
ISSN
1572-9036 .
S2CID
6681218 .
^ Fels, Mark; Olver, Peter J. (1999-01-01).
"Moving Coframes: II. Regularization and Theoretical Foundations" . Acta Applicandae Mathematicae . 55 (2): 127–208.
doi :
10.1023/A:1006195823000 .
ISSN
1572-9036 .
S2CID
826629 .
^ Olver, Peter J. (2007-09-01).
"Generating differential invariants" . Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications . Special issue dedicated to William Ames. 333 (1): 450–471.
Bibcode :
2007JMAA..333..450O .
doi :
10.1016/j.jmaa.2006.12.029 .
ISSN
0022-247X .
^ Olver, Peter J.; Pohjanpelto, Juha; Valiquette, Francis (2009-07-23).
"On the Structure of Lie Pseudo-Groups" . SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications . 5 : 077.
arXiv :
0907.4086 .
Bibcode :
2009SIGMA...5..077O .
doi :
10.3842/SIGMA.2009.077 .
S2CID
1861888 .
^ Olver, Peter J.; Pohjanpelto, Juha (November 2005).
"Maurer–Cartan forms and the structure of Lie pseudo-groups" . Selecta Mathematica . 11 (1): 99–126.
doi :
10.1007/s00029-005-0008-7 .
ISSN
1022-1824 .
S2CID
14712181 .
^ Kichenassamy, S.; Kumar, A.; Olver, P.; Tannenbaum, A.; Yezzi, A. (1995).
"Gradient flows and geometric active contour models" . Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision . Cambridge, MA, USA: IEEE Comput. Soc. Press. pp. 810–815.
doi :
10.1109/ICCV.1995.466855 .
ISBN
978-0-8186-7042-8 .
S2CID
10355426 .
^ Kichenassamy, Satyanad; Kumar, Arun; Olver, Peter; Tannenbaum, Allen; Yezzi, Anthony (1996-09-01).
"Conformal curvature flows: From phase transitions to active vision" . Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis . 134 (3): 275–301.
Bibcode :
1996ArRMA.134..275K .
doi :
10.1007/BF00379537 .
ISSN
1432-0673 .
S2CID
116487549 .
^ Yezzi, A.; Kichenassamy, S.; Kumar, A.; Olver, P.; Tannenbaum, A. (April 1997).
"A geometric snake model for segmentation of medical imagery" . IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging . 16 (2): 199–209.
doi :
10.1109/42.563665 .
hdl :
1853/32559 .
PMID
9101329 .
S2CID
6492817 .
^ Olver, Peter J. (January 1979).
"Euler operators and conservation laws of the BBM equation" . Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society . 85 (1): 143–160.
Bibcode :
1979MPCPS..85..143O .
doi :
10.1017/S0305004100055572 .
ISSN
1469-8064 .
S2CID
10840014 .
^ Li, Yi A; Olver, Peter J (2000-03-20).
"Well-posedness and Blow-up Solutions for an Integrable Nonlinearly Dispersive Model Wave Equation" . Journal of Differential Equations . 162 (1): 27–63.
Bibcode :
2000JDE...162...27L .
doi :
10.1006/jdeq.1999.3683 .
ISSN
0022-0396 .
^ Ball, J. M; Currie, J. C; Olver, P. J (1981-04-01).
"Null Lagrangians, weak continuity, and variational problems of arbitrary order" . Journal of Functional Analysis . 41 (2): 135–174.
doi :
10.1016/0022-1236(81)90085-9 .
ISSN
0022-1236 .
^ Olver, Peter J. (1984-06-01).
"Conservation laws in elasticity" . Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis . 85 (2): 111–129.
Bibcode :
1984ArRMA..85..111O .
doi :
10.1007/BF00281447 .
ISSN
1432-0673 .
S2CID
18746394 .
^ zbMATH.
"Olver, Peter J." Retrieved 19 June 2017 .
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"Peter Olver" . scholar.google.com . Retrieved 2021-11-28 .
^ University of Minnesota.
"How do we rank?" . Retrieved 10 August 2018 .
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