Ian Sneddon

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Ian Sneddon
Born
Ian Naismith Sneddon

(1919-12-08)8 December 1919
Glasgow, Scotland
Died4 November 2000(2000-11-04) (aged 80)
Glasgow, Scotland
Alma materUniversity of Glasgow
AwardsFRS[1]
Eringen Medal (1979)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Glasgow
Doctoral studentsAnthony Spencer[2]

Prof Ian Naismith Sneddon

FRSE FIMA OBE (8 December 1919 Glasgow, Scotland – 4 November 2000 Glasgow, Scotland) was a Scottish mathematician who worked on analysis and applied mathematics.[3][4]

Life

Sneddon was born in

Hyndland School in Glasgow.[5]

He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Glasgow, graduating with a BSc. He then went to the University of Cambridge, gaining an MA in 1941. From 1942 to 1945, during World War II, he served as a Scientific Officer to the Ministry of Supply. After the war he worked as a Research Officer for H H Wills Laboratory at the University of Bristol. In 1946, he began lecturing in Natural Philosophy (physics) at the University of Glasgow.[6]

In 1950, he received a professorship at

North Staffordshire
. In 1956, he returned to the University of Glasgow as Professor of Mathematics.

In 1958, he was elected a Fellow of the

Royal Society of London.[7][1]

He retired in 1985, and died in Glasgow on 4 November 2000.

Family

In 1943, he married Mary Campbell Macgregor.

Research

Sneddon's research was published widely including:

  • with Nevill Mott: Wave mechanics and its applications, 1948
  • Fourier transforms, 1951[8]
  • Special functions of mathematical physics and chemistry, 1956[9]
  • Elements of partial differential equations, 1957[10]
  • with James George Defares: An introduction to the mathematics of medicine and biology, 1960[11]
  • Mixed boundary problems in potential theory, 1966
  • Lectures on transform methods, 1967
  • with Morton Lowengrub: Crack problems in the classical theory of elasticity, 1969
  • The use of integral transforms, 1972
  • The linear theory of thermoelasticity, 1974
  • Encyclopaedic dictionary of mathematics for engineers and applied scientists, 1976
  • The use of operators of fractional integration in applied mathematics, 1979
  • with E. L. Ince: The solution of ordinary differential equations, 1987

Awards and honours

Sneddon received Honorary Doctorates from

Warsaw University (1973), Heriot-Watt University (1982)[12] University of Hull (1983) and University of Strathclyde
(1984).

References

  1. ^
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  2. ISSN 0080-4606
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  3. ^ McBride, Adam (15 January 2001). "Death of I. N. Sneddon". OP-SF Net.
  4. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Ian Sneddon", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  5. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  6. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  7. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  8. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1952-09636-1
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  9. doi:10.1063/1.3059825
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  10. doi:10.1063/1.3060371
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  11. doi:10.1017/S0013091500002911
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  12. ^ "Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh: Honorary Graduates". www1.hw.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 18 April 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
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