E. Brian Davies

Brian Davies
Brian Davies
	Davies in January 2016
Born	Edward Brian Davies; 13 June 1944(age 80)
Alma mater	St John's College, Oxford(Ph.D., 1965)
Awards	Senior Berwick Prize(1998); Pólya Prize(2011)
	Scientific career
Institutions	University of Oxford; King's College London
Doctoral advisor	David Edwards
Doctoral students	David E. Evans

Edward Brian DaviesFRS(born 13 June 1944) is a former professor of Mathematics,King's College London(1981–2010), and is the author of thepopular sciencebookScience in the Looking Glass: What do Scientists Really Know.^[2]In 2010, he was awarded aGauss Lectureby theGerman Mathematical Society.^[3]

Publications

Davies, E. Brian(1976).Quantum Theory of Open Systems.Academic Press.ISBN 0-12-206150-0.
Davies, E.B.(1980).One-Parameter Semigroups.London Math. Soc. Monograph series. Academic Press.ISBN 0-12-206280-9.
Davies, E.B.(1989).Heat Kernels and Spectral Theory.Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics. Vol. 92. Cambridge University Press.ISBN 0-521-36136-2.^[4]
Davies, E.B.(1995).Spectral Theory and Differential Operators.Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics. Vol. 42. Cambridge University Press.ISBN 0-521-47250-4.
Davies, E.B.;Safarov, Y. (1999).Spectral Theory and Geometry.London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Series. Vol. 273. Cambridge University Press.ISBN 0-521-77749-6.
Davies, E.B.(2003).Science in the Looking Glass.Oxford University Press.ISBN 0-19-852543-5.
Davies, E.B.(2007).Linear Operators and their Spectra.Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics. Vol. 106. Cambridge University Press.ISBN 978-0-521-86629-3.
Davies, E.B.(2010).Why Beliefs Matter: Reflections on the Nature of Science.Oxford University Press.ISBN 978-0-19-958620-2.

^"Berwick Prizewinners".MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive.University of St Andrews.Retrieved19 April2024.
^DAVIES, Prof. (Edward) Brian,Who's Who 2015,A & C Black, 2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
^"Chronik der Gauß-Vorlesungen"(in German). German Mathematical Society.Retrieved19 April2024.
^Strichartz, Robert S.(1990)."Review:Heat kernels and spectral theory,by E. B. Davies ".Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.).23(1): 222–227.doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1990-15936-1.

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