I. David Abrahams is an English Mathematician, currently Beyer Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Manchester. He has acted as vice president, and as of January 2008 is president, of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. Abrahams's BSc was in aeronautical engineering at Imperial College London in 1982, where he won two scholarships and the Finsbury Medal for top undergraduate.

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  • I. David Abrahams is an English Mathematician, currently Beyer Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Manchester. He has acted as vice president, and as of January 2008 is president, of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. Abrahams's BSc was in aeronautical engineering at Imperial College London in 1982, where he won two scholarships and the Finsbury Medal for top undergraduate. He went on to do a PhD in applied mathematics from Imperial, supervised by Frank Leppington for a thesis entitled “The scattering ofsound by finite thin elastic plates and cavities” Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content In thesame year, he moved to Manchester on a 1-year contract. This was the beginning of a collaboration with GR Wickham. First, they developed some general techniques for solving matrix Wiener–Hopf problems and this gave the solution to a basic problem of diffraction theory, namely, scattering by two parallel, semi-infinite, staggered plates. Motivated by the problems of austenitic steel welds, they went on to developed a theory for wave propagation in certain inhomogeneous anisotropic solids. They also gave asymptotic solutions for scattering bysmall defects in an elastic half-space making use of a certain expansion of the half-space Green's function. More recently Abrahams has found aspects of the Wiener-Hopf technique that impinge on finance and probability. This has led to developments, forexample in relating Wiener-Hopf factorisation to Spitzer’s identity and other important results within probability theory. Abrahams's leisure interests include motorcycling and he owns a 1977 Triumph Bonneville T140V, as well as a 1000cc Moto Guzzi. (en)
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  • 1996 – (en)
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  • I. David Abrahams is an English Mathematician, currently Beyer Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Manchester. He has acted as vice president, and as of January 2008 is president, of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. Abrahams's BSc was in aeronautical engineering at Imperial College London in 1982, where he won two scholarships and the Finsbury Medal for top undergraduate. (en)
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  • David Abrahams (mathematician) (en)
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