Roger Fletcher (mathematician)

Roger Fletcher FRS FRSE (29 January 1939 – 15 July 2016)[1] was a British mathematician and professor at University of Dundee.[2] He was a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)[3] and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2003.[4]

In 2006, he won the Lagrange Prize from SIAM.[5] In 2008, he was awarded a Royal Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[6]

See also

• BFGS method
• Davidon–Fletcher–Powell formula

Bibliography

• Practical methods of optimization, Wiley, 1987, ISBN 978-0-471-91547-8; Wiley, 2000, ISBN 978-0-471-49463-8

References

1. Tributes paid to Professor Roger Fletcher
2. "Division of Mathematics". Maths.dundee.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
3. "names 194 Fellows for key contributions to applied mathematics and computational science". SIAM. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
4. "Fellows". royalsociety.org. 2003. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
5. "Math News". Dm.unito.it. Archived from the original on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
6. "Division of Mathematics". Maths.dundee.ac.uk. 11 August 2008. Retrieved 26 July 2014.