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.[5] 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.[6]
In 1994 Beale was an invited speaker with talk Analytical and numerical aspects of fluid interfaces at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich.[7]
From June 28 to 30, 2010, the mathematics department of Duke University held a conference in his honor.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "Fluid dynamics, Analysis, and Numerics 2010: A conference in honor of J. Thomas Beale". Department of Mathematica, Duke University. June 2020.
- ^ "Lillian Neidlinger Beale". Savannah Morning News. October 8, 2004.
- ^ Seventy-Third Annual Commencement (PDF). California Institute of Technology. June 9, 1967.
- ^ Beale, James Thomas (1973). Purely Imaginary Scattering Frequencies for Exterior Domains.
- ^ James Thomas Beale at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Professor J. Thomas Beale Retires". Department of Mathematics, Duke University. May 20, 2016.
- ^ Beale, J. Thomas (1995). "Analytical and Numerical Aspects of Fluid Interfaces". Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, 1994, Zürich. Basel: Birkhäuser. pp. 1055–1064. doi:10.1007/978-3-0348-9078-6_98. ISBN 978-3-0348-9897-3.