James Thomas Beale Explained

James Thomas (J. Thomas "Tom") Beale (born 1947) is an American mathematician, specializing in fluid dynamics, partial differential equations, and numerical analysis.[1]

J. Thomas Beale grew up in Savannah, Georgia.[2] In 1967 he graduated from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) with a B.S. in mathematics.[3] In 1973 he received his PhD in mathematics from Stanford University. His PhD thesis Purely imaginary scattering frequencies for exterior domains.[4] was written under the supervision of Ralph S. Phillips. Soon after receiving his PhD Beale became a faculty member at Tulane University. In 1983 he resigned from Tulane University and became a professor at Duke University, where he retired as professor emeritus in 2016.[5]

In 1994 Beale was an invited speaker with talk Analytical and numerical aspects of fluid interfaces at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich.[6]

From June 28 to 30, 2010, the mathematics department of Duke University held a conference in his honor.[1]

References

  1. Web site: Fluid dynamics, Analysis, and Numerics 2010: A conference in honor of J. Thomas Beale. June 2020. Department of Mathematica, Duke University.
  2. News: Lillian Neidlinger Beale. Savannah Morning News. October 8, 2004.
  3. Book: Seventy-Third Annual Commencement. June 9, 1967. California Institute of Technology.
  4. Book: Purely Imaginary Scattering Frequencies for Exterior Domains. Beale. James Thomas. 1973.
  5. Web site: Professor J. Thomas Beale Retires. Department of Mathematics, Duke University. May 20, 2016.
  6. Book: 10.1007/978-3-0348-9078-6_98. Analytical and Numerical Aspects of Fluid Interfaces. Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, 1994, Zürich. 1995. Beale. J. Thomas. Birkhäuser. Basel. 1055–1064. 978-3-0348-9897-3.