John Toland (mathematician)

John Toland
FRS FRSE
Born (1949-04-28) 28 April 1949
Education St Columb's College[1]
Alma mater University of Sussex, Queen's University Belfast
Occupation mathematician, university teacher
Employer University of Bath, University of Cambridge
Awards

Scientific career

Thesis Topological Methods for Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problems (1973)
Doctoral advisor Charles A. Stuart[2]
Website
www.newton.ac.uk/about/history/toland

John Francis Toland FRS FRSE (born 28 April 1949 in Derry)[1] is an Irish mathematician based in the UK. From 2011 to 2016 he served as Director of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences and N M Rothschild & Sons Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge.

Education

Tolland was educated at St Columb's College in Derry and Queen's University Belfast where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degre in 1970.[1] He completed postgraduate study at the University of Sussex where he was awarded a PhD in 1973[3] for research on Topological Methods for Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problems supervised by Charles A. Stuart.[2]

Career and research

From 1982 to 2011 he was Professor of Mathematics at the University of Bath[4] where he held an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Senior Fellowship 1997-2002. In addition from 2002 to 2010 he was Scientific Director of the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS) in Edinburgh.[5][6] In 2011 he succeeded Sir David Wallace as Director of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences and N M Rothschild & Sons Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge.[7] In 2016 he was succeeded as Director by Professor David Abrahams.[8][2] His research interests include mathematical analysis and nonlinear partial differential equations with particular interest in the rigorous theory of steady water waves. In 1978, he proved George Gabriel Stokes' conjecture on the existence of gravity waves of maximum height on deep water, a previously open problem in mathematical hydrodynamics which dated back to the 19th century.[9][10]

Awards and honours

He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1999,[11] and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2003. He was awarded the London Mathematical Society's Senior Berwick Prize in 2000;[12] and the Royal Society's Sylvester Medal in 2012.[13]

He is an Honorary Fellow of University College London and was a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 TOLAND, Prof. John Francis. Who's Who. 2000 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription required)
  2. 1 2 3 John Toland at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ Toland, John Francis (1973). Topological Methods for Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problems (PhD thesis). University of Sussex. OCLC 500579955.
  4. 1 2 "J F Toland's home page". bath.ac.uk. Bath: University of Bath. Archived from the original on 2014-03-07.
  5. ↑ "Management Structure". ICMS. Retrieved 2007-09-19.
  6. ↑ "Officers and Council". LMS. Retrieved 2007-09-19.
  7. ↑ "Professor John Toland FRS FRSE". Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Isaac Newton Institute. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
  8. ↑ "Professor David Abrahams". newton.ac.uk.
  9. ↑ Toland, J. F. (1978). "On the Existence of a Wave of Greatest Height and Stokes's Conjecture". Retrieved 2007-09-24.
  10. ↑ Petrunic, Josipa. "George Gabriel Stokes". Gifford Lecture Series. Templeton Foundation Press. Retrieved 2007-09-24.
  11. ↑ Anon (1999). "Professor John Toland FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-11-17. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived September 25, 2015)
  12. ↑ "Citation for John Francis Toland". LMS. 2000. Retrieved 2007-09-19.
  13. ↑ "Sylvester Medal". Royal Society.


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 12/3/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.