Jürgen Moser

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Jürgen Moser was a prominent 20th-century mathematician known for his influential work in dynamical systems, Hamiltonian mechanics, and the KAM theory.

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instanceOf human
mathematician
academicAdvisor Carl Ludwig Siegel
awardReceived James Scott Prize of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Leroy P. Steele Prize
Wolf Prize in Mathematics
centuryOfActivity 20th century
citizenship Germany
Switzerland
countryOfBirth Germany
countryOfDeath Switzerland
dateOfBirth 1928-07-04
dateOfDeath 1999-12-17
doctoralThesisTopic dynamical systems
educatedAt ETH Zurich
University of Göttingen
employedBy Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
linked to: New York University

ETH Zurich
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
New York University
familyName Moser
fieldOfWork Hamiltonian mechanics
KAM theory
analysis
dynamical systems
elliptic partial differential equations
mathematics
partial differential equations
symplectic geometry
givenName Jürgen
influenced modern dynamical systems theory
memberOf Academia Europaea
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
National Academy of Sciences
notableFor Moser iteration method
Moser twist theorem
Moser–Trudinger inequality
contributions to Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser (KAM) theory
work on invariant curves of area-preserving twist maps
notableWork Lectures on Hamiltonian systems
Selected Chapters in the Calculus of Variations
Stable and Random Motions in Dynamical Systems
placeOfBirth Königsberg
placeOfDeath Zürich
linked to: Zurich
positionHeld professor of mathematics
spouse Gertrude Moser

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