Joseph Keller

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name = Joseph B. Keller


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birth_date = birth date and age|1923|7|31|mf=y
birth_place = Paterson, New Jersey
residence = U.S.
nationality = American
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field = Mathematician
work_institutions = New York University
Stanford University
alma_mater = New York University
doctoral_advisor = Richard Courant
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known_for =Geometrical Theory of Diffraction
prizes = U.S. National Medal of Science (1988)
Wolf Prize (1987)
Nemmers Prize in Mathematics (1996)
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Joseph B. Keller (born July 31, 1923, Paterson, New Jersey) is an American mathematician who specializes in applied mathematics. He is best known for his work on the "Geometrical Theory of Diffraction".

He obtained his PhD in 1948 from New York University under the supervision of Richard Courant. He was a Professor of Mathematics in the Courant Institute at New York University until 1979. Then he was Professor of Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University until 1993, when he became Professor Emeritus.

He worked on the application of mathematics to problems in science and engineering, such as wave propagation. He contributed to the Einstein-Brillouin-Keller method for computing eigenvalues in quantum mechanical systems.

In 1988 he was awarded the U.S. National Medal of Science, and in 1997 he was awarded the Wolf Prize, by the Israel-based Wolf Foundation. In 1996, he was awarded the Nemmers Prize in Mathematics.

External links

* [http://math.stanford.edu/~keller/JBK_BIO.htm Official biography]
* [http://math.stanford.edu/~keller/JBK_CV.htm Curriculum vitae]
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* cite journal
title = Interview with Joseph Keller
journal = Notices of the American Mathematical Society
year = 2004
month = August
volume = 51
issue = 7
pages = pp.751–760
url = http://www.ams.org/notices/200407/fea-keller.pdf
format = PDF
accessdate = 2008-01-17