Nationality American (1967) Doctoral advisor Garrett Birkhoff Field Mathematics | Fields Mathematics Doctoral students 17 students Academic advisor Garrett Birkhoff | |
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Born January 11, 1952 (age 65)
Middlesex, England ( 1952-01-11 ) Known for Symmetry groups of partial differential equations Alma maters Brown University, Harvard University Institutions University of Minnesota, University of Oxford, University of Chicago, University of Maryland, College Park Books Applications of Lie Groups to, Applied linear algebra, Equivalence - invariants - and sym, Classical invariant theory, Introduction to Partial Differenti Similar Allen Tannenbaum, Niky Kamran, Garrett Birkhoff, Gerald Sommer | ||
Peter John Olver is an American mathematician whose primary research interests involve the applications of symmetry and Lie groups to differential equations. He has been a full professor at the University of Minnesota since 1985 and is currently head of their mathematics department. In 2003, Olver was one of the top 240 most cited mathematicians in the world.
In 2014, Olver became a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics for "developing new geometric methods for differential equations leading to applications in fluid mechanics, elasticity, quantum mechanics, and image processing.". In addition, Olver is an elected fellow of the Institute of Physics and a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Olver is a prolific author, having written over 200 academic papers as of 2015. Of these, 137 have appeared or will appear in major refereed journals, 46 have appeared in conference proceedings and seven have appeared as appendices and chapters in books. Olver has an Erdős number of three.