George Adomian (March 21, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American

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descent who developed the Adomian decomposition method (ADM) for solving

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, both ordinary and partial. The method is explained, among other places, in his book ''Solving Frontier Problems in Physics: The Decomposition Method'' (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2004). He was a faculty member at the

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(UGA) from 1966 through 1989. While at UGA, he started the Center for Applied Mathematics. Adomian was also an

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Selected works

* G. Adomian: ''Stochastic Systems'', Academic Press, 1983. * G. Adomian: ''Nonlinear Stochastic Operator Equations'', Academic Press, 1986. * G. Adomian: ''Nonlinear Stochastic Systems Theory and Applications to Physics'', Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989.

References

Members of the Faculty of the Mathematics Department University of Georgia
1922 births 1996 deaths 20th-century American mathematicians American people of Armenian descent Place of birth missing Place of death missing University of Georgia faculty Mathematicians from Georgia (U.S. state) {{UGeorgia-stub