Philip Holmes

For the actor, see Phillips Holmes.

Philip John Holmes (born May 24, 1945) is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. As a member of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department, he formerly served as the interim chair until May 2007.

Philip J. Holmes
Philip Holmes
Born	(1945-05-24) May 24, 1945 (age 79)
Alma mater	University of Oxford University of Southampton
Scientific career
Fields	Mechanical engineering, Applied mathematics
Institutions	Cornell University Princeton University
Doctoral students	Sue Ann Campbell Jinqiao Duan Robert Ghrist Cristopher Moore Emily Stone Stephen Wiggins

Before moving to Princeton in 1994 he taught theoretical and applied mechanics at Cornell University from 1977 until 1994, when he was the Charles N. Mellowes Professor of Engineering and Professor of Mathematics.

Holmes was educated in England at the University of Oxford, where he studied engineering from 1964 to 1967, and at the University of Southampton, where he obtained a Ph.D. in engineering in 1974.^[1] He has made solid contributions to the field of nonlinear dynamics and differential equations. His book on dynamical systems with John Guckenheimer is a landmark in the field. Holmes is a very creative researcher and scientist and an outstanding lecturer. The sheer breadth of his contributions to applied mathematics is illustrated by the different topics on which he published books: apart from the aforementioned book, he published a book on turbulence with John L. Lumley and Gahl Berkooz, as well as a book on knots and links in dynamical systems with Robert Ghrist and Michael C. Sullivan, and a book about celestial mechanics with Florin Diacu.

He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994. In 2001 he was elected an honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 2006 he was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society,^[2] and in 2012 he was elected a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[3]

He also has published several collections of poetry. Among them his 1986 award-winning collection ‘The Green Road’.

Books

• Holmes, Philip J. (1980). New Approaches to Nonlinear Problems in Dynamics. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. ISBN 9780898711677.
• Guckenheimer, John; Holmes, Philip (21 November 2013). Nonlinear Oscillations, Dynamical Systems, and Bifurcations of Vector Fields. Springer. ISBN 9781461211402; 1st edition 1983{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
• Diacu, Florin; Holmes, Philip (8 December 2020). Celestial Encounters: The Origins of Chaos and Stability. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691221830; 1st edition 1996{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
• Holmes, Philip; Lumley, John L.; Berkooz, Gahl; Rowley, Clarence W. (23 February 2012). Turbulence, Coherent Structures, Dynamical Systems and Symmetry. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107008250; 1st edition 1996 (without Rowley){{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  • Holmes, P.; Lumley, J. L.; Berkooz, G. (23 July 1998). Turbulence, Coherent Structures, Dynamical Systems and Symmetry. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-63419-9; 1st pbk edition{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
• Ghrist, Robert W.; Holmes, Philip J.; Sullivan, Michael C. (14 November 2006). Knots and Links in Three-Dimensional Flows. Springer. ISBN 9783540683476; 1st edition 1997{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
• Newton, Paul; Holmes, Philip; Weinstein, Alan, eds. (11 May 2006). Geometry, Mechanics, and Dynamics: Volume in Honor of the 60th Birthday of J. E. Marsden. Springer. ISBN 9780387217918.

References

1. Philip Holmes at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
2. List of Fellows of the American Physical Society
3. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-21.

External links

• Home page at Princeton