Ian Sneddon
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Born | Ian Naismith Sneddon 8 December 1919 |
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Notable awards | FRS[3] Eringen Medal (1979) |
Ian Naismith Sneddon FRS[3] (8 December 1919 Glasgow, Scotland – 4 November 2000 Glasgow, Scotland) was a Scottish mathematician who worked on analysis and applied mathematics.[4][5]
Research
Sneddon's research was published widely including:
- with Nevill Mott: Wave mechanics and its applications, 1948
- Fourier transforms, 1951[6]
- Special functions of mathematical physics and chemistry, 1956[7]
- Elements of partial differential equations, 1957[8]
- with James George Defares: An introduction to the mathematics of medicine and biology, 1960[9]
- Mixed boundary problems in potential theory, 1966
- Lectures on transform methods, 1967
- with Morton Lowengrub: Crack problems in the classical theory of elasticity, 1969
- The use of integral transforms, 1972
- The linear theory of thermoelasticity, 1974
- Encyclopaedic dictionary of mathematics for engineers and applied scientists, 1976
- The use of operators of fractional integration in applied mathematics, 1979
- with E. L. Ince: The solution of ordinary differential equations, 1987
Awards and honours
Sneddon received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1982 [10]
Sneddon was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1983.[3]
References
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