Roger Temam
Encyclopedia
Roger Meyer Temam is a College Professor of mathematics at The Indiana University, Bloomington
. According to Mathematics Genealogy Project
, (in the beginning of 2009) Temam has supervised 106 PhD thesis; this is the highest number PhD thesis supervised by an individual in the field of mathematics. He has a total of 314 mathematical descendants. He is known for his contribution to the theory of Navier–Stokes equations.
at the Université de Paris. He finished his dissertation in 1967. He was elected to the French Academy of Sciences
on 11 December 2007 (while at Indiana University). From 1967 to 2003, Temam held a professorship at Université Paris-Sud (Orsay
).
. Indiana made him a "a very nice offer." He taught at both Indiana and in France for some time. While at Indiana, Temam served as the director of the Institute for Scientific Computing and Applied Mathematics at IU.
Bloomington, Indiana
Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of Monroe County in the southern region of the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 80,405 at the 2010 census....
. According to Mathematics Genealogy Project
Mathematics Genealogy Project
The Mathematics Genealogy Project is a web-based database for the academic genealogy of mathematicians. As of September, 2010, it contained information on approximately 145,000 mathematical scientists who contribute to "research-level mathematics"...
, (in the beginning of 2009) Temam has supervised 106 PhD thesis; this is the highest number PhD thesis supervised by an individual in the field of mathematics. He has a total of 314 mathematical descendants. He is known for his contribution to the theory of Navier–Stokes equations.
France
Temam was advised by Jacques-Louis LionsJacques-Louis Lions
Jacques-Louis Lions ForMemRS was a French mathematician who made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control, among other areas. He received the SIAM's John Von Neumann prize in 1986. Lions is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.-Biography:After...
at the Université de Paris. He finished his dissertation in 1967. He was elected to the French Academy of Sciences
French Academy of Sciences
The French Academy of Sciences is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research...
on 11 December 2007 (while at Indiana University). From 1967 to 2003, Temam held a professorship at Université Paris-Sud (Orsay
Orsay
Orsay is a commune in the Essonne department in Île-de-France in northern France. It is located in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France, from the center of Paris.Inhabitants of Orsay are known as Orcéens.-History:...
).
Indiana
In the mid-1980s, Temam came to Indiana University to work with Ciprian FoiasCiprian Foias
Ciprian Ilie Foias is a Romanian-American mathematician. He was awarded the Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics in 1995, for his contributions in operator theory....
. Indiana made him a "a very nice offer." He taught at both Indiana and in France for some time. While at Indiana, Temam served as the director of the Institute for Scientific Computing and Applied Mathematics at IU.
Books
- R. Temam, Navier-Stokes Equations: Theory and Numerical Analysis, American Mathematical Society (2001). ISBN 0821827375
- R. Temam, Infinite Dimensonal Dynamical Systems in Mechanics and Physics, 2nd ed., Springer (1997). ISBN 038794866X
- C. Foias, Manley, O., Rosa, R., and Temam, R., Navier-Stokes Equations and Turbulence, Cambridge University Press (2001). ISBN 0521360323
- R. Temam and Miranville, A., Mathematical Modeling in Continuum Mechanics, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press (2005). ISBN 0521617235
- P. Constantin, Foias, C., Nicolaenko, B., and Temam, R., Integral Manifolds and Inertial Manifolds for Dissipative Partial Differential Equations, Springer-Verlag, Applies Mathematical Sciences Series, Vol.70 (1988)
Awards and honors
- Seymour Cray Prize in Numerical Simulation, 1989
- Elected to the French Academy of SciencesFrench Academy of SciencesThe French Academy of Sciences is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research...
in December 2007