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Fields
  
Mathematician

Doctoral advisor
  
David Gilbarg

Role
  
Mathematician

Name
  
James Serrin

Alma mater
  
Indiana University


Born
  
November 1, 1926 Chicago, Illinois (
1926-11-01
)

Institutions
  
University of Minnesota

Known for
  
continuum mechanics, non-linear analysis, partial differential equations

Died
  
August 23, 2012, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Education
  
Indiana University Bloomington

Books
  
The Maximum Principle, Wavelets Through a Looking Glass: The World of the Spectrum

Awards
  
George David Birkhoff Prize

Similar People
  
Clifford Truesdell, Martin Feinberg, Yakov Sinai

James Burton Serrin (1 November 1926, Chicago, Illinois – 23 August 2012, Minneapolis, Minnesota) was an American mathematician, and a professor at University of Minnesota.

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Life

He received his doctorate from Indiana University in 1951 under the supervision of David Gilbarg. From 1954 till 1995 he was on the faculty of the University of Minnesota.

Work

He is known for his contributions to continuum mechanics, nonlinear analysis, and partial differential equations.

Awards and honors

He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1980.

Selected works

  • Serrin, James (1959), "Mathematical principles of classical fluid mechanics", in Flügge, Siegfried; Truesdell, Clifford A., Fluid Dynamics I/Strömungsmechanik I, Handbuch der Physik (Encyclopedia of Physics), VIII/1, Berlin–Heidelberg–New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 125–263., MR 0108116, Zbl 0102.40503, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-45914-6_2 .
  • Serrin, James (1959b), "On the Uniqueness of Compressible Fluid Motions", Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 3 (1): 271–288, ISSN 0003-9527, MR 0106646, Zbl 0089.19103, doi:10.1007/BF00284180 .
  • Serrin, James (1963), "The initial Value problem for the Navier-Stokes equations", in Langer, Rudolph E., Nonlinear problems. Proceedings of a symposium conducted by the Mathematics Research Center, United States Army, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 30-May 2, 1962., Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, pp. 69–98, MR 0150444, Zbl 0115.08502 .

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