Leslie Greengard Explained

Leslie Greengard
Birth Name:Leslie Frederick Greengard
Birth Place:London, United Kingdom
Fields:Applied mathematics
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Thesis Title:The Rapid Evaluation of Potential Fields in Particle Systems
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Thesis Year:1987
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Known For:Fast multipole method
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Father:Paul Greengard
Relatives:Chris Chase (aunt)

Leslie Frederick Greengard (born 1957) is an American mathematician, physicist and computer scientist.[1] [2] He is co-inventor with Vladimir Rokhlin Jr. of the fast multipole method (FMM) in 1987, recognized as one of the top-ten algorithms of the 20th century.[1] [3]

Greengard was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 for work on the development of algorithms and software for fast multipole methods.

Short biography

Leslie Frederick Greengard[4] was born in 1957 in London, England,[5] but grew up in the United States in New York City, Boston, and New Haven. He holds a B.A. in mathematics from Wesleyan University (1979), an M.D. from the Yale School of Medicine (1987), and a Ph.D. in computer science from Yale University (1987).[1] [2]

From 2006 to 2011, Greengard was director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, an independent division of the New York University (NYU)[2] [6] and is currently a professor of mathematics and computer science at Courant. He is also a professor at New York University Tandon School of Engineering[7] and the director of the Simons Center for Data Analysis.[8]

He formerly served as the Director at the Center for Computational Biology at the Flatiron Institute., he has assumed the directorship of the new Center of Computational Mathematics at the Institute.[9]

He is the son of neuroscientist Paul Greengard and the nephew of Irene Kane, later known as Chris Chase, an actress, writer, and journalist.[10]

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  1. 2001 Steele Prizes. Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 48. 4. 404–407. . .
  2. News: Current NSSEFF Fellows - 2010 Fellows. U.S. Department of Defense. . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110726171359/http://nsseff.ida.org/pages/cvs/Greengard-CV.pdf. 2011-07-26.
  3. Barry Arthur. Cipra. Barry Arthur Cipra. May 16, 2000. The Best of the 20th Century: Editors Name Top 10 Algorithms. SIAM News. 33. 4. 2. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. . https://web.archive.org/web/20110615092015/http://www.siam.org/news/news.php?id=637. June 15, 2011. dead. mdy-all.
  4. Greengard . Leslie Frederick . 1987 . The Rapid Evaluation of Potential Fields in Particle Systems . PhD . .
  5. Web site: IEEE Author: Leslie Greengard . . March 19, 2022.
  6. News: NYU Names Mathematician Leslie Greengard As Director of Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. John Beckman. NYU Today. New York University. . .
  7. Web site: Home | NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
  8. Web site: SCDA Staff | Simons Foundation . 2015-11-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151117110929/https://www.simonsfoundation.org/simons-center-for-data-analysis/scda-staff/ . 2015-11-17 . dead .
  9. Web site: Flatiron Institute Launches Center for Computational Mathematics. October 2018.
  10. News: A Nobel Patriarch 2000 Winner Head Of Talented Family. https://web.archive.org/web/20120515225133/http://articles.nydailynews.com/2003-02-03/news/18218126_1_gifted-kids-josephine-baker-role-models. dead. May 15, 2012. Clem Richardson. NYDailyNews.com. Daily News. . .
  11. Web site: Current NSSEFF Fellows - 2010 Fellows . . . dead . https://archive.today/20110726170444/http://nsseff.ida.org/pages/fellows.html . 2011-07-26 .
  12. Web site: NAE Members Directory - Dr. Leslie Greengard . U.S. National Academy of Engineering. .
  13. Web site: NAS Membership Directory . U.S. National Academy of Sciences. .
  14. Web site: Arts & Science - 2004-2005 Faculty Honors and Awards. New York University. . https://web.archive.org/web/20110720014700/http://as.nyu.edu/object/aboutas.honorsawards.0405. 2011-07-20. dead.
  15. Web site: Events - Previous Weekly Bulletins. Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. . .
  16. Book: Greengard, Leslie. Sun, Xiaobai. A new version of the fast Gauss transform. Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. III. 1998. 575–584. https://www.elibm.org/ft/10011612000.
  17. Web site: Fellowship for Science and Engineering . . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110211121102/http://www.packard.org/genericDetails.aspx?RootCatID=3&CategoryID=152 . 2011-02-11 .
  18. Web site: Fellowship for Science and Engineering - Leslie F. Greengard. David and Lucile Packard Foundation. .
  19. Web site: Presidential Young Investigator Award: Rapid Numerical Algorithms for Scientific Computation. . .
  20. Web site: Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. National Science Foundation. .
  21. Web site: Awards - CGS/UMI Distinguished Dissertation. Council of Graduate Schools. . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110128155818/http://www.cgsnet.org/Default.aspx?tabid=131. 2011-01-28.
  22. Web site: Hall of Scholars: past winners of the CGS/UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award. . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20101205200154/http://www.proquest.com/en-US/promos/hos/feature11_hos_ph.shtml. 2010-12-05. ProQuest.
  23. Web site: Doctoral Dissertation Award . Association for Computing Machinery. .

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