Rufus Bowen
| Robert Edward Bowen | |
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| Born | Robert Edward Bowen 23 February 1947 Vallejo, California, US |
| Died | 30 July 1978 (aged 31) Santa Rosa, California, US |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Stephen Smale |
| Doctoral students | Ernesto Franco-Sanchez Brian Marcus Sherman Wong Lai-Sang Young |
| Known for |
Dynamical systems theory Bowen's formula |
Robert Edward "Rufus" Bowen (23 February 1947 – 30 July 1978) was an internationally known professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, who specialized in dynamical systems theory. Bowen's work dealt primarily with axiom A systems, but the methods he used while exploring topological entropy, symbolic dynamics, ergodic theory, Markov partitions, and invariant measures "have application far beyond the axiom A systems for which they were invented." The Bowen Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, are given in his honor.
Robert Edward Bowen was born in Vallejo, California, to Marie DeWinter Bowen, a school teacher, and Emery Bowen, a Travis Air Force Base budget officer, but he grew up fifteen miles away in Fairfield, California, where he attended the public schools and graduated from Armijo High School in 1964. His senior yearbook documents that he played two years of varsity basketball, was a member of the science, math, and language clubs, and was President of the senior class. During his first three years of high school, he finished 102nd, 7th, and 2nd among Californians in the MAA (Mathematical Association of America) mathematics test. In 1964, he finished 2nd in the Westinghouse (now Intel) Science Talent Search in Washington, D.C. During his senior year in high school, his first published paper appeared in the American Mathematics Monthly.
As an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, Bowen was a Putnam Fellow in 1964 and 1965. He earned his bachelor's degree from Berkeley where he received, on 15 June 1967, the University Medal as the most distinguished graduating senior. He also received the Dorothea Klumpke Roberts Prize (as top mathematics student) and the Mathematics Department Citation. At this time, Bowen was quoted as saying, "I'm slightly involved in political activity." He was "active in organizations devoted to preventing nuclear war."
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