James Macklin "Mac" Hyman (born 1950) is an

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formerly at

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and currently at

Tulane University The Tulane University of Louisiana (commonly referred to as Tulane University) is a private research university in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Founded as the Medical College of Louisiana in 1834 by a cohort of medical doctors, it b ...

in the

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. He received his undergraduate degree from

and his

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in 1976 from NYU's

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under

Peter Lax Peter David Lax (1 May 1926 – 16 May 2025) was a Hungarian-born American mathematician and Abel Prize laureate working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics. Lax made important contributions to integrable systems, fluid dynamics an ...

with thesis ''The method of lines solution of partial differential equations''. Hyman served as president of the

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(SIAM) in 2003–2005. He was named a fellow of the

in 2009.

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External links

Web page at Los Alamos National Laboratory
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