News Release
LESLIE GREENGARD WINS
AMS STEELE PRIZE
Michael Breen, or Annette Emerson, AMS Public Awareness Officers
Email: pa-office@ams.org
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January 11, 2001
PROVIDENCE, RIóLeslie Greengard, a mathematician at the Courant Institute
of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, has won the 2001 Leroy P.
Steele Prize for a Seminal Contribution to Research. Professor Greengard
shares the prize with his collaborator Vladimir Rokhlin of Yale
University.
Presented by the American Mathematical Society, the Steele Prize is one
of the highest distinctions in mathematics. The prize will be awarded
today at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans.
Professor Greengard is being honored for his paper co-authored with
Professor Rokhlin and entitled "A fast algorithm for particle simulations"
(Journal of Computational Physics, volume 73, number 2, 1987).
"This is one of the most important papers in numerical analysis and scientific
computing in the last two decades," the prize citation states. The
paper showed how certain ideas could be combined "to produce an algorithm
that would make possible scientific and engineering computations that would
have been impossible before."
Founded in 1888 to further mathematical research and scholarship, the
30,000-member American Mathematical Society fulfills its mission through
programs and services that promote mathematical research and its uses,
strengthen mathematical education, and foster awareness and appreciation
of mathematics and its connections to other disciplines and to everyday
life.
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