Neil Sidney Trudinger (born 20 June 1942) is an Australian

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, known particularly for his work in the field of

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elliptic partial differential equation Second-order linear partial differential equations (PDEs) are classified as either elliptic, hyperbolic, or parabolic. Any second-order linear PDE in two variables can be written in the form :Au_ + 2Bu_ + Cu_ + Du_x + Eu_y + Fu +G= 0,\, wher ...

s. After completing his B.Sc at the

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in 1962, he continued his graduate studies at

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. He was awarded a Ph.D in 1966 for his thesis "Quasilinear Elliptical Partial Differential Equations in n Variables". After the award of his doctorate from Stanford University, Trudinger became a Courant Instructor at the

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during the academic year 1966–67. He then returned to Australia where he was appointed as a lecturer at Macquarie University in 1967. In 1970, he moved to

University of Queensland , mottoeng = By means of knowledge and hard work , established = , endowment = A$224.3 million , budget = A$2.1 billion , type = Public research university , chancellor = Peter Varghese , vice_chancellor = Deborah Terry , city = B ...

where he was first appointed as a Reader, then as Professor. In 1973 he moved to the

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies an ...

. In 2016 he moved to the

University of Wollongong The University of Wollongong (abbreviated as UOW) is an Australian public research university located in the coastal city of Wollongong, New South Wales, approximately 80 kilometres south of Sydney. As of 2017, the university had an enrolment of ...

, where he is currently appointed as a Distinguished Professor. At the ANU Trudinger served as Head of the Department of Pure Mathematics, as Director of the Centre for Mathematical Analysis and as Director of the Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, before becoming Dean of the School of Mathematical Sciences in 1992. He currently coordinates ANU's Applied and Nonlinear Analysis program. He is co-author, together with his thesis advisor, David Gilbarg, of the book ''Elliptic Partial Differential Equations of Second Order''.

Honours

* 1978, elected as a

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. * 1981, first recipient of the

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. * 1996, awarded the Hannan Medal of the

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. * 1997, elected as a Fellow of the

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. * 2008, awarded the

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for Mathematical Exposition by the

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. * 2012, elected as a fellow of the

.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2013-08-27. * 2014, gave the Łojasiewicz Lecture (on the "Optimal Transportation in the 21st Century") at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

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MacTutor biography
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ANU Applied and Nonlinear Analysis program
1942 births Living people Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science 20th-century Australian mathematicians 21st-century Australian mathematicians Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Fellows of the Royal Society PDE theorists Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences faculty {{mathematician-stub

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