James Davenport (professor)

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James Harold Davenport (born 1953) is a British computer scientist who works in computer algebra. He is the Hebron and Medlock Professor of Information Technology at the University of Bath in Bath, England.

He is an author of a textbook about computer algebra and many papers. He has been Project Chair of the European OpenMath Project and its successor Thematic Network, with responsibilities for aligning OpenMath and MathML, producing Content Dictionaries and supervised a Reduce-based OpenMath/MathML translator, and was Treasurer of the European Mathematical Trust. He was Founding Editor-in-Chief of the London Mathematical Society's Journal of Computation and Mathematics ^[1].

[edit] Books

• Davenport, James Harold. On the integration of algebraic functions. Berlin ; New York : Springer, 1981. 197 p. ; 25 cm. ISBN 0387102906 (paperback)
• Computer algebra : systems and algorithms for algebraic computation / J.H. Davenport, Y. Siret, E. Tournier ; translated from the French by A. Davenport and J.H. Davenport. London : San Diego : Academic Press, 1988. xix, 267 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN 0122042301
• EUROCAL ’87 : European Conference on Computer Algebra, Leipzig, GDR, June 2-5, 1987 : proceedings / J.H. Davenport (ed.). Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, c1989. viii, 499 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. ISBN 0387515178 (New York : acid-free paper) ISBN 3540515178 (Berlin : acid-free paper)
• Mathematical knowledge management : second international conference, MKM 2003, Bertinoro, Italy, February 16-18, 2003 : proceedings / Andrea Asperti, Bruno Buchberger, James H. Davenport (eds.).

[edit] External links

• James Davenport (professor) at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• James Davenport's homepage
• London Mathematical Society Journal of Computation and Mathematics

[edit] References

1. ^ London Mathematical Society Journal of Computation and Mathematics: Editorial; Aims and Scope

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