Inspiration and Creation of AMMOC

The mathematical heroes and scientists whose vision and views on scientific research, teaching, and life inspired the creation of this AMMOC program, by its founder Yaashaa P. Golovanov, are revered eminent mathematicians: Vladimir Igorevich Arnold and Jerrold E. Marsden. On this page you would find links to several pages wherein you would read more on lives of two geniuses, Professors Arnold and Marsden, who served all their life “to mathematics and mathematical sciences”.

Vladimir lgorevich Arnold
Jerrold Eldon Marsden

Professor Vladimir Arnold was a pre-eminent Russian mathematician of the second half of the twentieth and early twenty-first century who made revolutionary, deep and fundamental contributions in dynamical systems, singularity theory, stability theory, topology, algebraic geometry, magneto-hydrodynamics, partial differential equations, and often discovering hidden interconnections between diverse mathematical disciplines. The letter “A” in “KAM” theory stands for Arnold. Professor Arnol′d has won numerous honors and awards, including the Wolf Prize, Lenin Prize, the Crafoord Prize, and the Harvey Prize “for his deep and influential work in a multitude of areas of mathematics, including dynamical systems,differential equations and singularity theory” Symplectic Geometry, and the Geometrical Theory of Hydrodynamics.

Professor Jerrold E. Marsden obtained his PhD at Princeton, was the founding director of the premier Fields Institute, in Toronto and spent most of his academic career at Caltech, UC Berkeley as faculty of mathematics, control and dynamical systems. For his pioneering work, Professor Marsden won several major prizes, such as the Norbert Wiener Prize, the John von Neumann Prize, the Humboldt Prize, the Max Planck Research Award, and the Thomas Caughey Award. When alive, he was considered to be the greatest living authority in mathematical and theoretical mechanics, Symplectic Topology, and Symplectic Geometry. Marsden has laid much of the foundation for symplectic topology. He had the Marsden-Weinstein quotient named after him.

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