Roy Adler

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Nationality American Doctoral advisor Shizuo Kakutani Fields Mathematics		Alma mater Yale University Name Roy Adler

Born February 22, 1931 (age 93) ( 1931-02-22 ) Institutions Thomas J. Watson Research Center Institution Thomas J. Watson Research Center

Roy Lee Adler (February 22, 1931 – July 26, 2016) was an American mathematician.

Adler earned his Ph.D. in 1961 from Yale University under the supervision of Shizuo Kakutani (On some algebraic aspects of measure preserving transformations). He then worked as a mathematician for IBM at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center.

Adler studies dynamical systems, ergodic theory, symbolic and topological dynamics and coding theory. The road coloring problem that was solved by Avraham Trakhtman in 2007 came from him, along with L. W. Goodwyn and Benjamin Weiss.

He was a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Writings

With Brian Marcus: Topological entropy and equivalence of dynamical systems, American Mathematical Society 1979

With Benjamin Weiss: Similarity of automorphisms of the torus, Memoirs AMS 1970

Symbolic dynamics and Markov partitions, Bulletin AMS, volume 35, 1998, pg. 1-57

With L. W. Goodwyn, B. Weiss: Equivalence of topological Markov shifts, Israel J. Math., volume 27, 1977, pg. 49-63

With Alan Konheim, M. H. McAndrew Topological Entropy, Transactions AMS, volume 114, 1965, pg. 309-319

Topological Entropy, in Scholarpedia

With Charles Tresser, Patrick A. Worfolk Topological conjugacy of linear endomorphisms of the 2-torus, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 349 (1997), 1633–1652

With B. Weiss Entropy, a complete metric invariant for automorphisms of the torus, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 57 (1967), 1573–1576

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