Arieh Iserles

{{Short description|British mathematician (born 1947)}}

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Arieh Iserles (born 2 September 1947){{Citation needed|date=May 2023}} is a computational mathematician, currently Professor of the Numerical Analysis of Differential Equations at the University of Cambridge and a member of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and wrote his PhD dissertation on numerical methods for stiff ordinary differential equations. His research comprises many themes in computational and applied mathematics: ordinary and partial differential equations, approximation theory, geometric numerical integration, orthogonal polynomials, functional equations, computational dynamics and the computation of highly oscillatory phenomena.

He has written a textbook, A First Course in the Numerical Analysis of Differential Equations (Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed. 2009).{{cite web|url=http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item2327165/?site_locale=en_GB|title=A First Course in the Numerical Analysis of Differential Equations | Numerical Analysis | Cambridge University Press|publisher=cambridge.org|accessdate=18 August 2016}}

Iserles is the managing editor of Acta Numerica, editor-in-chief of IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis{{cite web |title=Oxford Journals | Science & Mathematics | IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis |url=http://imajna.oxfordjournals.org/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070202144113/http://imajna.oxfordjournals.org/ |archive-date=2 February 2007 |accessdate=18 August 2016 |publisher=imajna.oxfordjournals.org}} and an editor of several other mathematical journals. From 1997 to 2000 he was the chair of the Society for the Foundations of Computational Mathematics.{{Cite web |title=Governance of FoCM, 2008 and Prior Years |url=http://focm-society.org/governance_before_2008.php |access-date=2023-05-21 |website=FoCM}}

From 2010 to 2015 he was a director of the Cambridge Centre for Analysis (CCA), an EPSRC-funded Centre for Doctoral Training in mathematical analysis.

In 1999, he was awarded the Onsager Medal by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. In 2012 he received the David Crighton medal,{{Cite web |last=Kidwell |first=Eugene |date=2016-06-21 |title=David Crighton Medal winners 2012 – Professor Arieh Iserles |url=https://ima.org.uk/2452/david-crighton-medal-winners-2012-professor-arieh-iserles/ |access-date=2023-05-21 |website=IMA |language=en-GB}} presented by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and London Mathematical Society "for services to mathematics and the mathematics community"{{cite web|url=http://www.ima.org.uk/viewitem.cfm?cit_id%3D384309 |title=Arieh Iserles |accessdate=2012-10-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928095402/http://www.ima.org.uk/viewitem.cfm?cit_id=384309 |archivedate=28 September 2013 }} and in 2014 he was awarded by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics the SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession.{{cite web|url=http://www.siam.org/prizes/sponsored/dist_service.php|title=SIAM: SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession|publisher=siam.org|accessdate=18 August 2016}} In 2012, Iserles was an invited speaker at the 6th European Congress of Mathematics{{cite web|url=http://www.6ecm.pl/en|title=Home | 6th European Congress of Mathematics|publisher=6ecm.pl|accessdate=18 August 2016}} in Kraków.