Avner Friedman


Avner Friedman is Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Physical Sciences at Ohio State University. His primary field of research is partial differential equations, with interests in stochastic processes, mathematical modeling, free boundary problems, and control theory.
Friedman received his Ph.D. degree in 1956 from the Hebrew University. He was Professor of Mathematics at Northwestern University, a Duncan Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Purdue University, and a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Minnesota. He was director of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications from 1987 to 1997. He was the founding Director of the Mathematical Biosciences Institute at Ohio State University, serving as its first director from 2002-2008.
Friedman has been the Chair of the Board of Mathematical Sciences and the President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He has been awarded the Sloan Fellowship, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Stampacchia Prize, the National Science Foundation Special Creativity Award. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2009 he became a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
He has been adviser to 27 doctoral students, has published 25 books, and over 500 papers.

Works

  1. Generalized Functions and Partial Differential Equations. Prentice-Hall. Dover Publications 2005
  2. Partial Differential Equations of Parabolic Type. Prentice-Hall. Dover Publications
  3. Partial Differential Equations. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York. Dover Books 2008
  4. Foundations of Modern Analysis. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York. Dover Publications on Mathematics 2010.
  5. Advanced Calculus. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York. Dover Publications 2007
  6. Differential Games. John Wiley, Interscience Publishers. Dover Publications 2006
  7. Stochastic Differential Equations and Applications. Vol. 1, Academic Press. Dover Books 2006.
  8. Stochastic Differential Equations and Applications. Vol. 2, Academic Press.
  9. Variational Principles and Free Boundary Problems, Wiley & Sons. Dover Publications on Mathematics 2010
  10. Mathematics in Industrial Problems, IMA Volume 16, Springer-Verlag.
  11. Mathematics in Industrial Problems, Part 2, IMA Volume 24, Springer-Verlag.
  12. Mathematics in Industrial Problems, Part 3, IMA Volume 31, Springer-Verlag.
  13. Mathematics in Industrial Problems, Part 4, IMA Volume 38, Springer-Verlag.
  14. Mathematics in Industrial Problems, Part 5, IMA Volume 49, Springer-Verlag.
  15. Mathematics in Industrial Problems, Part 6, IMA Volume 57, Springer-Verlag.
  16. Problems in Industrial Mathematics, SIAM, Philadelphia.
  17. Mathematics in Industrial Problems, Part 7, IMA Volume 67, Springer-Verlag.
  18. Mathematics in Industrial Problems, Part 8, IMA Volume 83, Springer-Verlag.
  19. Mathematics in Industrial Problems, Part 9, IMA Volume 88, Springer-Verlag.
  20. Mathematics in Industrial Problems, Part 10, IMA Volume 100, Springer-Verlag.
  21. Mathematical Models in Photographic Science, Springer-Verlag.
  22. Models of Cellular Regulation, Oxford University Press, 2008.
  23. . Mathematical Modeling with Biological Processes. Springer. 2014
  24. Introduction to Mathematical Biolog: Modeling, Analysis, and Simulations. Springer-Verlag 2016