Stanley Osher
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Stanley Osher is an American mathematician renowned for his influential work in numerical analysis and partial differential equations, particularly in developing high-resolution schemes for computational fluid dynamics and image processing.
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| Stanley Osher canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stanley Osher Context triple: [Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize, hasRecipient, Stanley Osher]
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Charles S. Peskin
Charles S. Peskin is an American applied mathematician best known for developing the immersed boundary method for simulating fluid–structure interactions, particularly in modeling blood flow and the heart.
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B.
Alexandre J. Chorin
Alexandre J. Chorin is a mathematician renowned for his pioneering work in computational fluid dynamics and numerical methods for solving the Navier–Stokes equations.
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C.
Jonathan Sheinberg
Jonathan Sheinberg is an American film producer known for his work on movies such as "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (2003) and "McHale's Navy."
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D.
Norman J. Zabusky
Norman J. Zabusky was an American physicist renowned for his pioneering work in computational fluid dynamics and the discovery of solitons in nonlinear wave equations.
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E.
Luis Caffarelli
Luis Caffarelli is an Argentine-American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in partial differential equations and regularity theory, including major contributions to the theory of free boundary problems and the Navier–Stokes equations.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stanley Osher Target entity description: Stanley Osher is an American mathematician renowned for his influential work in numerical analysis and partial differential equations, particularly in developing high-resolution schemes for computational fluid dynamics and image processing.
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A.
Charles S. Peskin
Charles S. Peskin is an American applied mathematician best known for developing the immersed boundary method for simulating fluid–structure interactions, particularly in modeling blood flow and the heart.
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B.
Alexandre J. Chorin
Alexandre J. Chorin is a mathematician renowned for his pioneering work in computational fluid dynamics and numerical methods for solving the Navier–Stokes equations.
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C.
Jonathan Sheinberg
Jonathan Sheinberg is an American film producer known for his work on movies such as "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (2003) and "McHale's Navy."
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D.
Norman J. Zabusky
Norman J. Zabusky was an American physicist renowned for his pioneering work in computational fluid dynamics and the discovery of solitons in nonlinear wave equations.
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E.
Luis Caffarelli
Luis Caffarelli is an Argentine-American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in partial differential equations and regularity theory, including major contributions to the theory of free boundary problems and the Navier–Stokes equations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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mathematician ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| academicAdvisor | Peter Lax ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize
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Fellow of SIAM ⓘ Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ⓘ Fellow of the American Mathematical Society ⓘ Guggenheim Fellowship ⓘ SIAM Kleinman Prize ⓘ SIAM Pioneer Prize ⓘ SIAM W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize ⓘ SIAM von Neumann Prize ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Brooklyn College
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New York University ⓘ |
| employer | University of California, Los Angeles ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
applied mathematics
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computational fluid dynamics ⓘ image processing ⓘ numerical analysis ⓘ optimization ⓘ partial differential equations ⓘ scientific computing ⓘ |
| hasResearchInterest |
compressed sensing
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computational methods for conservation laws ⓘ hyperbolic partial differential equations ⓘ image segmentation ⓘ inverse problems ⓘ machine learning in imaging ⓘ sparse optimization ⓘ |
| knownFor |
ENO schemes
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Osher–Chakravarthy schemes ⓘ
linked to:
Godunov-type schemes
Osher–Sethian level set formulation ⓘ Osher–Solomon schemes ⓘ
linked to:
Godunov-type schemes
WENO schemes ⓘ high-resolution schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws ⓘ level set method ⓘ total variation denoising ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America ⓘ
linked to:
National Academy of Sciences
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| notableStudent | Chi-Wang Shu ⓘ |
| notableWork |
development of ENO and WENO schemes
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development of the level set method for moving interfaces ⓘ total variation based image denoising models ⓘ |
| occupation |
mathematician
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university teacher ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Director of Applied Mathematics at UCLA
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Professor of Mathematics at UCLA ⓘ |
| workplace | Department of Mathematics, UCLA ⓘ |
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