Roger Fletcher (mathematician)
Roger Fletcher FRS FRSE (29 January 1939 – 15 July 2016)[1] was a British mathematician and professor at University of Dundee.[2] He was a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)[3] and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2003.[4]
In 2006, he won the Lagrange Prize from SIAM.[5] In 2008, he was awarded a Royal Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[6]
The Royal Society published his memoir in 2025.[7]
See also
[edit]- BFGS method
- Biconjugate gradient method
- Davidon–Fletcher–Powell formula
- Nonlinear conjugate gradient method
Bibliography
[edit]- Practical methods of optimization, Wiley, 1987, ISBN 978-0-471-91547-8; Wiley, 2000, ISBN 978-0-471-49463-8
References
[edit]- ↑ Tributes paid to Professor Roger Fletcher
- ↑ "Division of Mathematics". Maths.dundee.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
- ↑ "names 194 Fellows for key contributions to applied mathematics and computational science". SIAM. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
- ↑ "Fellows". royalsociety.org. 2003. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
- ↑ "Math News". Dm.unito.it. Archived from the original on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
- ↑ "Division of Mathematics". Maths.dundee.ac.uk. 11 August 2008. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
- ↑ Gould, N. I. M.; Hall, J. A. J. (July 2025). "Roger Fletcher. 29 January 1939—15 July 2016: 29 January 1939 — 15 July 2016". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 78: 127–146. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2024.0037. ISSN 1748-8494.
