Arieh Iserles (born 2 September 1947) is a computational mathematician, currently Professor of the Numerical Analysis of Differential Equations at the

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and a member of the

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. He studied at the

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and

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) (, ''Universitat Ben-Guriyon baNegev'') is a public university, public research university in Beersheba, Israel. Named after Israeli List of national founders, national founder David Ben-Gurion, the unive ...

and wrote his PhD dissertation on numerical methods for stiff ordinary differential equations. His research comprises many themes in computational and applied mathematics: ordinary and partial differential equations, approximation theory, geometric numerical integration, orthogonal polynomials, functional equations, computational dynamics and the computation of highly oscillatory phenomena. He has written a textbook, ''A First Course in the Numerical Analysis of Differential Equations'' (Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed. 2009). Iserles is the managing editor of ''

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'', editor-in-chief of ''IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis'' and an editor of several other mathematical journals. From 1997 to 2000 he was the chair of the Society for the Foundations of Computational Mathematics. From 2010 to 2015 he was a director of the Cambridge Centre for Analysis (CCA), an

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-funded

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. In 1999, he was awarded the Onsager Medal by the

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. In 2012 he received the

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medal, presented by the

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and

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"for services to mathematics and the mathematics community" and in 2014 he was awarded by the

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the SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession. In 2012, Iserles was an invited speaker at the 6th

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in Kraków.

References

External links

Professor Iserles' website
1947 births Living people Ben-Gurion University of the Negev alumni Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni Mathematical analysts Cambridge mathematicians David Crighton medalists {{UK-mathematician-stub