John A. Adam (mathematician)

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John Anthony Adam is a British-American applied mathematician known for his work on patterns in nature and on mathematical modeling of the growth patterns of cancer and blood vessels. He is University Professor of Mathematics at Old Dominion University in Virginia. [1] [2]

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Education and career

Adam is a 1971 graduate, with first-class honours, from Queen Elizabeth College. He completed his Ph.D. in 1974 at University College London. [1] [2] His dissertation, A Theoretical Study of Magnetohydrodynamic Processes in Solar Active Regions, was jointly supervised by astrochemist Gillian Peach and astrophysicist Carole Jordan. [3]

After working as a researcher in theoretical astronomy and applied mathematics, respectively at the University of Sussex and University of St Andrews, he became a lecturer in mathematics at the New University of Ulster in 1978, while also taking a research affiliation at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. In 1983 he came to the US as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Rochester, and in 1984 he moved to Old Dominion University. He was named University Professor there in 1999. [1] [2]

Book

Adam is the author of books including:

Recognition

In 2007, the State Council of Higher Education in Virginia (SCHEV) gave Adam their Outstanding Faculty Award. [10]

In 2012, Adam won the Carl B. Allendoerfer Award of the Mathematical Association of America for an exposition of blood vessel modeling. [11]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "John Adam", Directory, Old Dominion University, retrieved 2021-12-08
  2. 1 2 3 Brief Resume, Old Dominion University, retrieved 2021-12-08
  3. ↑ John A. Adam at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ Reviews of A Survey of Models for Tumor-Immune System Dynamics:
  5. ↑ Reviews of Mathematics in Nature:
  6. ↑ Reviews of Guesstimation:
  7. ↑ Reviews of A Mathematical Nature Walk:
  8. ↑ Reviews of X and the City:
  9. ↑ Reviews of Rays, Waves, and Scattering:
  10. ↑ SCHEV Outstanding Faculty Awards, Old Dominion University, 30 August 2022, retrieved 2022-09-06; see "Past Award Winners", 2000–2009
  11. ↑ "Blood Vessel Branching: Beyond the Standard Calculus Problem", MAA Writing Awards, Mathematical Association of America, retrieved 2021-12-08
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