Professor

John Guckenheimer

Cornell University
Mathematician; Educator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
Elected
2008
Professor of Mathematics. Contributed to theoretical dynamical systems (universality of periods in one-dimensional maps, chaotic properties of Lorenz attractor, bifurcations of multi-scale systems); neuroscience (models of motor neural networks, lobster nervous system, and mouse spinal cord); computational dynamical systems (creator of DSTool, computer assisted dynamics proofs, and computational methods for periodic orbits and bifurcations).
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