Roger Fletcher (mathematician)
Roger Fletcher FRS FRSE (29 January 1939 – 15 July 2016)[1] was a British mathematician and professor at University of Dundee.[2] He was a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)[3] and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2003.[4]
In 2006, he won the Lagrange Prize from SIAM.[5] In 2008, he was awarded a Royal Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[6]
See also[]
- BFGS method
- Davidon–Fletcher–Powell formula
Bibliography[]
- Practical methods of optimization, Wiley, 1987, ISBN 978-0-471-91547-8; Wiley, 2000, ISBN 978-0-471-49463-8
References[]
- ^ Tributes paid to Professor Roger Fletcher
- ^ "Division of Mathematics". Maths.dundee.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
- ^ "names 194 Fellows for key contributions to applied mathematics and computational science". SIAM. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
- ^ "Fellows". royalsociety.org. 2003. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
- ^ "Math News". Dm.unito.it. Archived from the original on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
- ^ "Division of Mathematics". Maths.dundee.ac.uk. 11 August 2008. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
Categories:
- 1939 births
- 2016 deaths
- British mathematicians
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Academics of the University of Dundee