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Carrier, George Francis was born on May 4, 1918 in Millinocket, Maine, United States. Son of Charles Mosher and Mary (Marcaux) Carrier.
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Functions of a Complex Variable: Theory and Technique (Classics in Applied Mathematics)
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Functions of a complex variable are used to solve applications in various branches of mathematics, science, and engineering. Functions of a Complex Variable: Theory and Technique is a book in a special category of influential classics because it is based on the authors’ extensive experience in modeling complicated situations and providing analytic solutions. The book makes available to readers a comprehensive range of these analytical techniques based upon complex variable theory. Proficiency in these techniques requires practice. The authors provide many exercises, incorporating them into the body of the text. By completing a substantial number of these exercises, the reader will more fully benefit from this book. Based on graduate courses in applied mathematics, Functions of a Complex Variable: Theory and Technique is intended for applied mathematicians, scientists, engineers, and senior or graduate-level students who have advanced knowledge in calculus and are interested in such subjects as complex variable theory, function theory, mathematical methods, advanced engineering mathematics, and mathematical physics.
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George CARRIER, American professor of applied mathematics. Award, A; Award in Applied Math and Numerical Analysis 1980; Medal, American Society; Medal, ASME 1978; Medal 1980; Medal, A; Medal of Science 1990. National Academy, of Sciences; American Philosophical Society, Council for Engineering College, Cornell University; A.S.M.E.
Education
Born in Millinocket, Maine, he received a master's in engineering degree in 1939 and a Ph.D. in 1944 from Cornell University with a dissertation in applied mechanics entitled Investigations in the Field of Aeolotropic Elasticity and the Bending of the Sectorial-Plate under the supervision of J. Norman Goodier.
Career
He was particularly noted for his ability to intuitively model a physical system and then deduce an analytical solution. He worked especially in the modeling of fluid mechanics, combustion, and tsunamis. He was co-author of a number of mathematical textbooks and over 100 journal papers.
He died from esophageal cancer on March 8, 2002. Carrier is known for "", a humorous explanation of why divergent asymptotic series often yield good approximations if the first few terms are taken even when the expansion parameter is of order one, while in the case of a convergent series many terms are needed to get a good approximation: “Divergent series converge faster than convergent series because they don't have to converge.”
Abernathy, Frederick. Fendell, Francis (June 3, 2002), Obituaries: George Francis Carrier, SIAM News, retrieved January 20, 2012
Abernathy, Frederick H.
Bryson, Arthur E. (2007), "George F. Carrier", Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering 11, The National Academies Press, pp.
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Ordinary Differential Equations (Classics in Applied Mathematics)
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Functions of a Complex Variable: Theory and Technique (Classics in Applied Mathematics)
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Ordinary Differential Equations (Classics in Applied Mathematics)
Membership
Former trustee Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, British Institute Mathematics and Its Applications (honorary). Member American Society of Mechanical Engineers (honorary, Timoshenko medal 1978, Centennial medal 1980), NAS (Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis award 1980), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Dryden medal 1989), Society Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Von Karman prize 1979), National Academy Engineering, American Philosophical Society, American Physical Society (Fluid Dynamics prize 1984), International Society Interaction mechanics and Mathematics, Sigma Xi. M C.
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Married Mary Casey, June 30, 1946. Children: Kenneth, Robert, Mark.
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March 8, 2002 (aged 84)