James H. Bramble Explained

Known For:	Bramble–Hilbert lemma
Birth Date:	1 December 1930
Birth Place:	Annapolis, Maryland

James Henry Bramble (December 1, 1930 – July 20, 2021^[1])^[2] was an American mathematician known for his fundamental contributions in the development of the finite element methods, including the Bramble–Hilbert lemma,^[3] domain decomposition methods, and multigrid methods.^[4] During his career, he taught at Cornell University and Texas A&M University.

James Henry Bramble was born on December 1, 1930, in Annapolis, Maryland. He received his undergraduate degree at Brown University in 1953 and his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1958.^[5] Bramble joined Cornell University in 1968, where he worked to develop analytical methods for partial differential equations. Between 1975 and 1981 he served as director of Cornell's Center for Applied Mathematics. From 1975 to 83, Bramble served as the chief editor for Mathematics of Computation.

Bramble retired from Cornell in 1994, later teaching at Texas A&M University.^[6]

Bramble received an honorary doctorate from the Chalmers University of Technology in 1985.^[7]

See also

• Weakly chained diagonally dominant matrix

References

1. Web site: Mathematician James H. Bramble dies at 90. 2021-09-09. Cornell Chronicle. en.
2. n 93057088.
3. J. H. Bramble and S. R. Hilbert. Estimation of linear functionals on Sobolev spaces with application to Fourier transforms and spline interpolation. SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 7:112–124, 1970.
4. Bramble, James H. Multigrid methods. Pitman Research Notes in Mathematics Series, 294. Longman Scientific & Technical, Harlow; co-published in the United States with John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1993.
5. Web site: 2021-09-08. James H. Bramble, Pioneering Professor of Mathematics, Dies at 90. 2021-09-09. The Cornell Daily Sun. en-US.
6. http://www.math.tamu.edu/~pasciak/b50/index.html James Bramble – Half a Century in Mathematics
7. http://www.chalmers.se/sections/om_chalmers/akademiska_hogtidlig/promotion/hedersdoktorer/james-h-bramble James H. Bramble

External links

• • Guide to the James H. Bramble Papers, 1962–1997, Collection Number 14-19-3308, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library 2003