Abul Hasan Siddiqi (10 January 1943 – 20 January 2020) was an Indian mathematician and Professor of Applied Mathematics. Siddiqi was the President of
Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ISIAM). He was Editor-in-Chief of a series of Industrial and Applied Mathematics of
Springer Nature
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.
Education
Siddiqi completed his education up to Bachelor of Sciences at St. Andrews High School and St. Andrews Degree College affiliated with
Gorakhpur University
Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University (formerly known as Gorakhpur University) is located in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh.
The University of Gorakhpur is a teaching and residential-cum-affiliating University. It has entered the league of top fi ...
, India. He joined
Aligarh Muslim University
Aligarh Muslim University is a Collegiate university, collegiate, Central university (India), central, and Research university, research university located in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India, which was originally established by Sir Syed Ahmad Kh ...
in 1960 to pursue an M.Sc. Mathematics. Siddiqi was promoted to
Doctorate
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from Aligarh Muslim University in 1967 under the supervision of
Jamil A. Siddiqi. Siddiqi undertook post doctoral studies at
Heidelberg University
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under the guidance of
Horst Leptin (1971–72) as a fellow of
German Academic Exchange Service
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Organisa ...
.
Career
Siddiqi served the Aligarh Muslim University in different capacities between 1965 and 1998 such as Professor of Applied Mathematics and Chairman Department of Mathematics, Provost of a Prestigious Hall of Residence, Member-in-Charge AMU Press, Dean of the Faculty of Science, Chief Election Officer of the AMU and AMU
students' union
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. He had held visiting assignments in different parts of the world including USA, Canada, Germany, Iran, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Malaysia. From December 1973 to August 1975 Siddiqi was
visiting professor
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at the
University of Tabriz
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, Iran. From October 1980 to April 1983 he was visiting professor at Constantine University,
Algeria
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. From October 1998 to April 2007 Siddiqi was employed as Professor of Mathematics at the
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
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Founded near the earliest local oil fields as the College of Petroleum & Minerals (1963) in response to the ...
, Saudi Arabia.
Siddiqi had also served
Gautam Buddha University
Gautam Buddha University ("GBU") () is a university established by the Uttar Pradesh Gautam Buddha University Act 2002 (UP Act No. 9 of 2002) and came into existence in 2008. It is approved by University Grants Commission (UGC) under section ...
from 15 October 2011 to 9 January 2013 and contributed significantly to its development.
Fellowships
Siddiqi was awarded a
German Academic Exchange Service
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Organisa ...
(DAAD) Fellowship in 1971 for postdoctoral work at
Institute of Applied Mathematics at
Heidelberg University
Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg (; ), is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1386 on instruction of Pope Urban VI, Heidelberg is Germany's oldest unive ...
for a period of eighteen months. He was also awarded DAAD revisit fellowships during 1989 and 1997 to work at the Institute of Industrial and Business Mathematics,
University of Kaiserslautern
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The university wa ...
, for period of three months, each time.
Siddiqi was also awarded regular Associateship of the
International Centre for Theoretical Physics
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The center operates under a tripartite agreement between the Gov ...
(ICTP) in
Trieste
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, Italy, on the basis of worldwide competition for the period of 1992 to 1997. He was also awarded senior associateship on the basis of worldwide competition for the period of 2001 to 2006. Siddiqi was nominated as the ICTP consultant to Istanbul Aydin University, Turkey for the period of 2007 to 2010.
Bibliography
As editor-in-chief
* Series of Industrial Applied Mathematics of Springer Nature
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* Indian Journal of Industrial and Applied Mathematics- A Publication of Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics
As author
* Yu. A Farkov, P Manchanda, A H Siddiqi, Construction of Wavelets Through Walsh Functions, 2019, Springer Nature, .
* M Brokate, P Manchanda, A H Siddiqi, Calculus for Scientists and engineers, Springer Nature,
* A H Siddiqi, Functional Analysis and Applications, Springer Nature, 2018,
* A H Siddiqi, M Al-Lawati and M Boulbrachene, Modern Engineering Mathematics, CRC Press, 2018, ,
* K. Adzievski and A H Siddiqi, Introduction to Partial Differential Equations for Scientist and Engineers using Mathematica, Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, U.S. 162013, ,
* A H Siddiqi, Applied Functional Analysis: Numerical Methods, Wavelet Methods, Marcel Dekker, 2003, ,
* Helmut Neunzert and A H Siddiqi, Topics in Industrial Mathematics, Case Studies and Related Mathematical Methods. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston-Dordrecht-London, 2000, ,
As editor
* P Manchanda, R Lozi and AH Siddiqi, Industrial Mathematics and Complex Systems: Emerging Mathematical Models, Methods and Algorithms, Springer Nature
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, 2017, .
* M Brokate and AH Siddiqi, Functional Analysis with Current Applications in Science, Technology and Industry, Pitman Research Note in Mathematics series, Vol. 377, Addison Wesley Longman, U.K. 1997, 2nd edition 2015, .
* A H Siddiqi, Emerging Applications of Wavelet Methods, Vol. 1463, American Institute of Physics (AIP), USA, 2014.
* A H Siddiqi, P Manchanda and Rashmi Bhardwaj, Mathematical Methods, Models and Applications, 2015, Springer Nature, .
* A H Siddiqi, A K Gupta & M Brokate, Modelling of Engineering and Technological Problems, American Institute of Physics, 2009, .
References
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1943 births
2020 deaths
People from Uttar Pradesh
Aligarh Muslim University alumni