Ernie Tuck
{{Short description|Australian mathematician}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Ernie Tuck
| image = Eotuck Dec 06.JPG
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1939|6|1|df=y}}
| birth_place = Adelaide, South Australia
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2009|3|11|1939|6|1}}
| death_place = Adelaide, South Australia
| nationality = File:Flag of Australia.svg Australian
| field = Applied mathematics
| work_institution = The University of Adelaide
| alma_mater = University of Adelaide
Cambridge University
| doctoral_advisor = Fritz Ursell
| doctoral_students =
| known_for = Tuck's incompressibility function
Tuck Fellowship{{cite web|url=http://www.iwwwfb.org/tuck.htm |title=The Tuck Fellowship |publisher=IWWWFB |accessdate=2010-12-04 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726200853/http://www.iwwwfb.org/tuck.htm |archivedate=26 July 2011 }}
Ship Motion Program
| prizes = Georg Weinblum Lectureship (1990)
Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal (1999)
ANZIAM Medal (1999)
| footnotes =
}}
Professor Ernest Oliver (Ernie) Tuck was an Australian applied mathematician, notable for his sustained work in ship hydrodynamics, and for Tuck's incompressibility function.M.V. Berry and P. Shukla, "Tuck's incompressibility function: statistics for zeta zeros and eigenvalues", Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 41 (2008) 385202
Early life and education
Tuck was born on 1 June 1939 in Adelaide, South Australia. He studied Applied Mathematics for his undergraduate degree at the University of Adelaide, where his principal mentor was Professor R. B. Potts. In 1960, he studied with Fritz Ursell at Cambridge University for his PhD. His PhD thesis was on the application of slender-body theory to ships. In it, he made a revolutionary approach of using matched asymptotic expansions in order to predict the wave resistance of a slender ship.{{cite web |url=http://www.iwwwfb.org/Tuck/TuckBio.pdf |title=Ernest Oliver Tuck |author=J. N. Newman |date=13 April 2009 |accessdate=2009-12-30}}
Career
In 1963 Tuck went to the United States to work with Francis Ogilvie and John Nicholas Newman at the David Taylor Model Basin, and subsequently with Ted Wu at Caltech. He worked on topics related to ship hydrodynamics, acoustics, bio-fluid mechanics, and numerical analysis. Tuck returned to Adelaide University in 1968 as a Reader in Applied Mathematics, and was subsequently appointed the (Sir Thomas) Elder Professor of Mathematics. From 1984 to 1992 he served as Editor of Series B (Applied Mathematics) of the Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society. In 1992 he established TeXAdel, an organization responsible for automating the production of the AMS journals. He served as president of the IUTAM Congress in 2008. He has been a visiting professor at Caltech, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and MIT. Apart from applied mathematics, in his later years he also worked on problems in pure mathematics related to Riemann hypothesis and properties of the zeta function.
Summary
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- 1939 Born: 1 June 1939 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- 1960 University of Adelaide Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours in Mathematics
- 1963 D Phil (Cambridge) Dissertation: "The steady motion of a slender ship"
- 1959 Awarded the Sir John Gellibrand Scholarship
- 1988 Elected as Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
- 1990 Awarded the George Weinblum Lectureship
- 1995 Elected as Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
- 1999 Awarded the Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal
Publications
He published over 180 papers covering a wide range of topics in:
Personal
Survived by wife Helen (née Wood), two sons Warren and Geoff, and their grandchildren. He and his wife shared a strong interest in backgammon, and other games of chance.
References
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External links
- [http://internal.maths.adelaide.edu.au/people/etuck/ Home Page at University of Adelaide]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090914093827/http://www.maths.adelaide.edu.au/ernie.html "Obituary"] at the School of Mathematical Sciences of the University of Adelaide
- [http://www.iwwwfb.org/Tuck/TuckBio.pdf "Ernest Oliver Tuck"], Biography at the IWWWFB website
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Category:20th-century Australian mathematicians
Category:Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science
Category:University of Adelaide alumni