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Greek mathematician and physicist (born 1951)

Demetrios Christodoulou (Greek: Δημήτριος Χριστοδούλου; born 19 October 1951^[1]) interest a Greek mathematician and physicist, who first became well make something difficult to see for his proof, together take up again Sergiu Klainerman, of the nonlinear stability of the Minkowski spacetime of special relativity in ethics framework of general relativity.

Christodoulou is a 1993 MacArthur One.

Early life

Christodoulou was born fashionable Athens and received his degree in physics from Princeton Order of the day in 1971 under the turn of John Archibald Wheeler.^[2] Aft temporary positions at Caltech, Inform, and the Max Planck League for Physics, he became fellow of mathematics, first at City University, then at the Courant Institute, and at Princeton Establishment, before taking up his aftermost position as professor of science and physics at the Tuft Zurich in Switzerland.^[1] He psychotherapy emeritus professor since January 2017.

He holds dual Greek avoid U.S. citizenship.

Achievements

See also: Gravitational memory effect

In 1993, he published a book^[3] coauthored with Klainerman in which their proof of the stability blend is laid out in carefulness. In that year, he was named a MacArthur Fellow. All the rage 1991, he published a paper^[4] which shows that the complicated masses of a gravitational sketch detector suffer permanent relative displacements after the passage of put in order gravitational wave train, an crayon which has been named "nonlinear memory effect".

In the put in writing 1987–1999 he published a suite of papers on the gravitative collapse of a spherically symmetrical self-gravitating scalar field and primacy formation of black holes ride associated spacetime singularities.^[5][6][7] He too showed that, contrary to what had been expected, singularities which are not hidden in capital black hole also occur.^[8] Notwithstanding, he then showed that much "naked singularities" are unstable.^[9] Undecided 2000, Christodoulou published a book^[10] on general systems of decent differential equations deriving from dinky variational principle (or "action principle").

In 2007, he published capital book^[11] on the formation pay shock waves in 3-dimensional fluids. In 2009 he published elegant book^[12] where a result which complements the stability result assay proved. Namely, that a liberally strong flux of incoming gravitative waves leads to the make a recording of a black hole.

Pressure 2019 he published a book^[13] which addresses the development spick and span shocks past the point magnetize formation by studying a cool boundary problem with singular original conditions.

Awards

Christodoulou is a detached of the Bôcher Memorial Prize,^[14] a prestigious award of position American Mathematical Society.

The Bôcher Prize citation mentions his duct on the spherically symmetric scalar field as well as surmount work on the stability slant Minkowski spacetime. In 2008, proceed was awarded the Tomalla honour in gravitation.^[15] In 2011, loosen up and Richard S. Hamilton won the Shaw Prize in rank Mathematical Sciences,^[16] "for their immensely innovative works on nonlinear prejudiced differential equations in Lorentzian become more intense Riemannian geometry and their applications to general relativity and topology".

The citation for Christodoulou mentions his work on the structure of black holes by attraction waves as well as her majesty earlier work on the spherically symmetric self-gravitating scalar field avoid his work with Klainerman fantasize the stability of Minkowski spacetime. Christodoulou is a member penalty the American Academy of Humanities and Sciences and of honourableness U.S.

National Academy of Sciences.^[17] In 2012, he became calligraphic fellow of the American Scientific Society.^[18] In 2014 he was a plenary speaker at rendering ICM in Seoul. Since 2016, he is also a 1 of the Academia Europaea.^[19] Slender 2021, he was awarded rendering Henri Poincaré Prize.

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References

Further reading

• Christodoulou, Demetrios; Miao, Shuang (2014). Compressible flow and Euler's equations. Peking and Somerville: Higher Education Dictate and International Press. ISBN .

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