Vladimir Rokhlin Jr.
- 1 min read
- 1 chapter
Related on Lably
Through Computer science, Mathematics and Algorithm
In 2008, Rokhlin was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for the development of fast multipole algorithms and their application to electromagnetic and acoustic scattering.
Short biography
Vladimir Rokhlin Jr. was born on August 4, 1952, in Voronezh, USSR (now Russia). In 1973 he received a M.S. in mathematics from the University of Vilnius in Lithuania, and in 1983 a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Rice University located in Houston, Texas, United States. In 1985 Rokhlin started working at Yale University located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, where he is now professor of computer science and mathematics.
He is the son of Soviet mathematician Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin.

