James Serrin

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| birth_date = {{birth date |1926|11|01}}

| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois

| death_date = {{death date and age |2012|08|23 |1926|11|01 }}

| death_place = Minneapolis, Minnesota

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| citizenship = American

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| fields = Mathematician

| workplaces = University of Minnesota

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| alma_mater = Indiana University Bloomington

| thesis_title = The Existence and Uniqueness of Flows Solving Four Free Boundary Problems

| thesis_year = 1951

| thesis_url = https://search.worldcat.org/title/34981861?oclcNum=34981861

| doctoral_advisor = David Gilbarg

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| known_for = Meyers–Serrin theorem
Harnack's inequality

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| awards = ICM Speaker (1970, 1983)
{{no wrap|George David Birkhoff Prize (1973)}}

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James Burton Serrin (1 November 1926, Chicago, Illinois – 23 August 2012, Minneapolis, Minnesota) was an American mathematician, and a professor at University of Minnesota.{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/startribune/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=159462038#fbLoggedOut |title=James B. Serrin Obituary: View James Serrin's Obituary by Star Tribune |publisher=Legacy.com |date=2012-08-31 |access-date=2012-12-09}}

Life

He graduated from Evanston Township High School in 1944. He then studied engineering and science at Northwestern University in 1944 to 1946 before transferring Western Michigan College, where he a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1947. He received his doctorate from Indiana University Bloomington in 1951 under the supervision of David Gilbarg. From 1954 till 1995, he was on the faculty of the University of Minnesota.{{MathGenealogy|id=2727}}P. Pucci, "An Appreciation of James Serrin", in {{cite book |author1=Buttazzo, Giuseppe |author2=Serrin, J. |title=Nonlinear analysis and continuum mechanics: papers for the 65th birthday of James Serrin |publisher=Springer |location=Berlin |year=1998 |isbn=0-387-98296-5}}{{MacTutor|id=Serrin|title=James Burton Serrin}}

Work

He is known for his contributions to continuum mechanics, nonlinear analysis,{{Cite journal | last1 = Serrin | first1 = J. | author-link = James Serrin| doi = 10.1007/BF02391014 | title = Local behavior of solutions of quasi-linear equations | journal = Acta Mathematica | volume = 111 | pages = 247–302 | year = 1964 | doi-access = free}} and partial differential equations.{{cite web|url=http://www.math.umn.edu/~serrin/ |title=Homepage of James Serrin |access-date=2012-01-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309085808/http://www.math.umn.edu/~serrin/ |archive-date=2012-03-09 |url-status=dead}}{{Cite journal | last1 = Serrin | first1 = J. | author-link = James Serrin| doi = 10.1007/BF00250468 | title = A symmetry problem in potential theory | journal = Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis | volume = 43 | issue = 4 | pages = 304–318 | year = 1971 | bibcode = 1971ArRMA..43..304S | s2cid = 120079938}}{{Cite journal | last1 = Serrin | first1 = J. | author-link = James Serrin| title = On the interior regularity of weak solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations | doi = 10.1007/BF00253344 | journal = Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis | volume = 9 | pages = 187–195 | year = 1962 | issue = 1 | bibcode = 1962ArRMA...9..187S | hdl = 2027/mdp.39015095249564 | s2cid = 122802358 | hdl-access = free}}

Awards and honors

He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1980.

Selected works

{{Citation

| last = Serrin

| first = James

| contribution = Mathematical principles of classical fluid mechanics

| year = 1959

| title = Fluid Dynamics I/Strömungsmechanik I

| editor-last = Flügge

| editor-first = Siegfried

| editor-link = Siegfried Flügge

| editor2-last = Truesdell

| editor2-first = Clifford A.

| editor2-link = Clifford Truesdell

| series = Handbuch der Physik (Encyclopedia of Physics)

| volume = VIII/1

| pages = 125–263

| place = Berlin–Heidelberg–New York

| publisher = Springer-Verlag

| doi =10.1007/978-3-642-45914-6_2

| bibcode = 1959HDP.....8..125S

| isbn = 978-3-642-45916-0

| mr = 0108116

| zbl = 0102.40503}}.

{{Citation

| last = Serrin

| first = James

| author-link = James Serrin

| title =On the Uniqueness of Compressible Fluid Motions

| journal =Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis

| volume =3

| issue =1

| pages =271–288

| year =1959b

| issn = 0003-9527

| doi =10.1007/BF00284180

| bibcode = 1959ArRMA...3..271S

| mr =0106646

| zbl =0089.19103

| s2cid = 120478897}}.

{{Citation

| last = Serrin

| first = James

| author-link = James Serrin

| editor-last =Langer

| editor-first =Rudolph E.

| contribution =The initial Value problem for the Navier-Stokes equations

| contribution-url =http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3836930?urlappend=%3Bseq=87

| title =Nonlinear problems. Proceedings of a symposium conducted by the Mathematics Research Center, United States Army, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 30-May 2, 1962.

| year =1963

| pages =69–98

| place =Madison

| publisher =The University of Wisconsin Press

| mr =0150444

| zbl =0115.08502

| hdl = 2027/uc1.b3836930}}.

References

External links

[http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/serrin-james.pdf Donald G. Aronson and Hans F. Weinberger, "James B. Serrin", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2016)]

James Serrin

Life

Work

Awards and honors

Selected works

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