Stephen Ray Wiggins is an American

United States

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 applied mathematician, born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and best known for his contributions in nonlinear dynamics, chaos theory

Chaos theory

Chaos theory is a field of study in mathematics, with applications in several disciplines including physics, economics, biology, and philosophy. Chaos theory studies the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions, an effect which is popularly referred to as the...

 and nonlinear phenomena, influenced heavily by his PhD advisor Philip Holmes

Philip Holmes

Philip J. Holmes is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. As a member of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department, he formerly served as the interim chair until May 2007....

, whom he studied under at Cornell University. He is actively working on the advancement of computational applied mathematics at the University of Bristol

University of Bristol

The University of Bristol is a public research university located in Bristol, United Kingdom. One of the so-called "red brick" universities, it received its Royal Charter in 1909, although its predecessor institution, University College, Bristol, had been in existence since 1876.The University is...

, where he was the head of the Mathematics Department until 2008. Previously he was a professor at Caltech in Pasadena, California.

External links

• Publications of Professor Wiggins
• His Students
• The Laboratory for Advanced Computation