Peter Salamon

{{short description|American mathematician}}

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|name = Peter Salamon

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|nationality = American

|fields = Mathematician

|workplaces = San Diego State University

|alma_mater = University of Chicago

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Peter Salamon is a mathematics professor at San Diego State University.{{Cite web|url=http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~psalamon/|title=Prof. Peter Salamon at San Diego State University}}

He has published more than 200 mathematical articles related to biomathematics, thermodynamics in finite time / geometrical thermodynamics, and optimization and mathematical modeling.Peter Salamon on [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NW6S4b4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Google Scholar]

He has an Erdős number of one and is also known for founding and doing extensive work on Finite Time Thermodynamics.

In 1984, Peter Salamon co-founded the Telluride Science and Innovation Center,History of the [https://telluridescience.org/telluride-science-history/ Telluride Science & Innovation Center] together with R. Stephen Berry. Salamon served as Telluride Science’s first Chairman of the Board and President from 1984 through 1987.

In 1990, Salamon introduced the idea of ensembles to neural networks.