Floris Takens, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Floris Takens

Dutch mathematician

Date of Birth: 12-Nov-1940

Place of Birth: Zaandam, North Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 20-Jun-2010

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: Brazil, Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Floris Takens

  • Floris Takens (November 12, 1940 – June 20, 2010) was a Dutch mathematician known for contributions to the theory of chaotic dynamical systems. Together with David Ruelle, he predicted that fluid turbulence could develop through a strange attractor, a term they coined, as opposed to the then-prevailing theory of accretion of modes.
  • The prediction was later confirmed by experiment.
  • Takens also established the result now known as the Takens's theorem, which shows how to reconstruct a dynamical system from an observed time-series. Takens was born in Zaandam in the Netherlands.
  • He attended schools in The Hague and in Zaandam before serving in the Dutch army for one year (1960–1961).
  • At the University of Amsterdam he concluded his undergraduate and graduate studies.
  • He was granted a doctorate in mathematics in 1969 under the supervision of Nicolaas Kuiper for a thesis entitled The minimal number of critical points of a function on a compact manifold and the Lusternik–Schnirelmann category. After his graduate work, Takens spent a year at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, in Bures-sur-Yvette, near Paris, where he worked with David Ruelle, RenĂ© Thom, and Jacob Palis.
  • His friendship with Palis has taken him many times to the Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • Their collaboration produced several joint publications. Takens was a professor at the University of Groningen, in Groningen, the Netherlands from 1972 until he retired from teaching in 1999.Takens was member of: The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1991) The Brazilian Academy of Sciences (since 1981), and The editorial board for the Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Mathematics.

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