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Peter Lancaster
Born (1929-11-14) 14 November 1929 (age 94)
Appleby, England
Alma materNational University of Singapore
Spouse
Edna Hutchinson
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(m. 1951, died)​
Awards
Humboldt Prize (2000)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Calgary
Thesis On the Theory of Lambda-Matrices with Applications to the Analysis of Vibrating Systems  (1964)
Doctoral advisorDaniel Pedoe
Doctoral studentsJon Rokne

Peter Lancaster FRSC (born 14 November 1929) is a British–Canadian mathematician. He is professor emeritus at the University of Calgary, where he has worked since 1962. His research focuses on matrix analysis and related fields, motivated by problems from vibration theory, numerical analysis, systems theory, and signal processing.[1]

Biography

Lancaster was born in Appleby, England, and attended Sir John Deane's Grammar School and the Liverpool Collegiate School. After an unsuccessful year in the University of Liverpool School of Architecture, he joined the mathematics program in the same university, graduating with an honours degree in 1952.[2] Lancaster thereupon worked as an aerodynamicist with the English Electric Company until 1957, completing a Master's degree at the same time under the supervision of Louis Rosenhead.[3]

He took a teaching post at the

PhD in 1964, and moved to Canada in November 1962 to work at the University of Calgary. Lancaster held visiting positions at the California Institute of Technology (1965–66), the University of Basel (1968–69), and the University of Dundee (1975–76) as well as shorter stays at the Universities of Münster, Tel Aviv, Konstanz, and Ben-Gurion.[4]

Lancaster served as Department Chairman from 1973 to 1977, and President of the

Humboldt Research Award in 2000.[5]
In 2018 the Canadian Mathematical Society listed him in their inaugural class of fellows.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ Lancaster, Peter (2008). "Peter Lancaster". University of Calgary. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
  2. ISBN 978-3-7643-8733-4
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  3. ^ Higham, Nicholas J. (June 2005). An Interview with Peter Lancaster (PDF) (Report). Manchester Centre for Computational Mathematics.
  4. ISBN 978-3-0348-9467-8
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  5. ^ "Outstanding Science Alumni Awards 2005". Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore. 2005. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
  6. ^ Canadian Mathematical Society Inaugural Class of Fellows, Canadian Mathematical Society, December 7, 2018
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