Past Department Members

Kelli Talaska

Job Title: Continuing Lecturer

Research Area: Algebra

Research Interests: Algebraic combinatorics

Email: talaska@math.berkeley.edu

Oscar E. Lanford, III

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

UC In Memoriam biography

RESEARCH AREA: Mathematical Analysis, Geometry/Topology

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Dynamical systems, statistical mechanics, quantum field theory, mathematical computation

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

A computer-assisted proof of the Feigenbaum conjectures", Bull.Am.Math.Soc.(...

Shoshichi Kobayashi

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

UC In Memoriam biography

Biography

RESEARCH AREA: Geometry/Topology

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Riemannian and complex manifolds

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Shiing-Shen Chern

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

UC In Memoriam biography

MacTutor biography

RESEARCH AREA: Geometry/Topology

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Differential and integral geometry

PhD...

Robert Lawson Vaught

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

UC In Memoriam biography

RESEARCH AREA: Mathematical Logic

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Foundations of mathematics

René J. De Vogelaere

JOB TITLE: Professor

UC In Memoriam biography

RESEARCH AREA: Applied Mathematics

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Numerical analysis, nonlinear differential equations; applications of computers to abstract algebra and number theory; finite geometries

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Raphael Mitchel Robinson

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

UC In Memoriam biography

MacTutor biography

RESEARCH AREA: Algebra, Mathematical Analysis, Mathematical Logic

RESEARCH INTERESTS: One complex variable, foundations, theory of numbers

Rainer K. Sachs

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

Physics Dept., Remembering Rainer Sachs

RESEARCH AREA: Applied Mathematics

RESEARCH INTERESTS: (Through 1977:) Cosmology, gravitational waves, general relativity. (Since 1980:) Mathematical biology, radiation damage to DNA

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Goldberg, J. N. and Sachs, R. K. (2009). Republication of: a theorem on Petrov types [refcno 0156679]. Gen...

Paul L. Chambré

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

UC In Memoriam biography

RESEARCH AREA: Applied Mathematics

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Applied Mathematics

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Dean, Edward T. and Chambré, Paul L. (1971). On the bifurcation of solutions of the nonlinear eigenvalue problem Lu+λ b(x)u=g(x,,u). SIAM J. Appl. Math. 20 722-734...

P. Emery Thomas

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

UC In Memoriam biography

RESEARCH AREA: Geometry/Topology

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Number theory, Diophantine equations

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Emery Thomas. Counting solutions to trinomial Thue equations: a different approach. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 352(8):3595-3622, 2000. Emery Thomas. Solutions to infinite...