Ian Sneddon

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Ian Sneddon
Born Ian Naismith Sneddon
(1919-12-08)8 December 1919
Died 4 November 2000(2000-11-04) (aged 80)
Doctoral students
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:

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

  1. Chadwick, P.; England, A. H.; Parker, D. F. (2015). "Anthony James Merrill Spencer 23 August 1929 — 26 January 2008". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. Royal Society publishing. 61. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2015.0003. ISSN 0080-4606.
  2. Ian Sneddon at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. 1 2 3 Chadwick, P. (2002). "Ian Naismith Sneddon, O.B.E. 8 December 1919 - 4 November 2000". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 48: 417. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2002.0025.
  4. McBride, Adam (15 Jan 2001). "Death of I. N. Sneddon". OP-SF NET.
  5. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Ian Sneddon", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
  6. Heins, Albert E. (1952). "Review: I. Sneddon, Fourier transforms". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 58 (4): 512–513. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1952-09636-1.
  7. Cohen, E. Richard (1956). "Review: Special functions of mathematical physics and chemistry". Physics Today. 9 (11): 46. doi:10.1063/1.3059825.
  8. Polkinghorne, J. C. (1957). "Review: Elements of partial differential equations". Physics Today. 10 (5): 36. doi:10.1063/1.3060371.
  9. Jones, D. S. (1961). "Review: An introduction to the mathematics of medicine and biology". Proc. Edinburgh Math. Soc. 12 (3): 166–167. doi:10.1017/S0013091500002911.
  10. webperson@hw.ac.uk. "Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh: Honorary Graduates". www1.hw.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
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