Biography:E. Brian Davies
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Short description: British mathematician
Brian Davies | |
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| Born | Edward Brian Davies 13 June 1944 |
| Alma mater | St John's College, Oxford (Ph.D., 1965) |
| Awards | Senior Berwick Prize (1998)[citation needed] Pólya Prize (2011) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Oxford King's College London |
| Doctoral advisor | David Edwards |
| Doctoral students | David E. Evans |
Edward Brian Davies FRS (born 13 June 1944) was Professor of Mathematics, King's College London (1981–2010), and is the author of the popular science book Science in the Looking Glass: What do Scientists Really Know.[1] In 2010, he was awarded a Gauss Lecture by the German Mathematical Society.
Publications
Books
- Davies, E. Brian (1976). Quantum Theory of Open Systems.. Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-206150-0.
- Davies, E.B. (1980). One-Parameter Semigroups. London Math. Soc. Monograph series. Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-206280-9.
- Davies, E.B. (1989). Heat Kernels and Spectral Theory. Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics. 92. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-36136-2.[2]
- Davies, E.B. (1995). Spectral Theory and Differential Operators. Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics. 42. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-47250-4.
- Davies, E.B.; Safarov, Y. (1999). Spectral Theory and Geometry. London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Series. 273. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-77749-6.
- Davies, E.B. (2003). Science in the Looking Glass. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-852543-5. https://archive.org/details/scienceinlooking00davi.
- Davies, E.B. (2007). Linear Operators and their Spectra. Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics. 106. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-86629-3.
- Davies, E.B. (2010). Why Beliefs Matter: Reflections on the Nature of Science. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-958620-2.
References
- ↑ DAVIES, Prof. (Edward) Brian, Who's Who 2015, A & C Black, 2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
- ↑ Strichartz, Robert S. (1990). "Review: Heat kernels and spectral theory, by E. B. Davies". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 23 (1): 222–227. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1990-15936-1. https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1990-23-01/S0273-0979-1990-15936-1/.
External links
- Brian Davies' King's College London Home Page
- Brian Davies' Personal Home Page
- Full proof? Let's trust it to the black box Times Higher Education 1 September 2006
- New Scientist book review of Why Beliefs Matter
- London Mathematical Society Review of Why Beliefs Matter: Reflections on the Nature of Science by Colva Roney-Dougal
- E. Brian Davies at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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