James H. Davenport

Professor James Davenport

James Davenport in 2001
Born James Harold Davenport
1953 (age 61–62)
Fields Cryptography
Computer algebra systems[1]
Institutions University of Cambridge
University of Bath
Thesis On the integration of algebraic functions (1979)
Doctoral advisor John Peter Fitch
Arthur Charles Norman[2]
Doctoral students John Abbott
Daif Al-Kuwari
Russell Bradford
Emma Cliffe
Michael Dewar
Nicolas Doye
Brian Dupee
Andrew Holt
Nicholas Howgrave-Graham
Paul Libbrecht
Nalina Phisanbut
Michael Richardson
Olga Tabachnikova[2]
Website
people.bath.ac.uk/masjhd

James Harold Davenport (born 1953) is a British computer scientist who works in computer algebra. Having done his PhD and early research at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, he is the Hebron and Medlock Professor of Information Technology at the University of Bath in Bath, England.[1][3]

Research

Davenport is an author of a textbook about computer algebra and many papers.[4][5][6][7] 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.[8]

Personal life

Davenport is the son of Harold Davenport.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 James H. Davenport's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a free service provided by Google
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 James H. Davenport at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ James H. Davenport's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  4. ↑ Davenport, James Harold. On the integration of algebraic functions. Berlin ; New York : Springer, 1981. 197 p. ; 25 cm. ISBN 978-0-387-10290-0 (paperback)
  5. ↑ 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 978-0-12-204230-0
  6. ↑ 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 978-0-387-51517-5 (New York : acid-free paper) ISBN 978-3-540-51517-3 (Berlin : acid-free paper)
  7. ↑ Mathematical knowledge management : second international conference, MKM 2003, Bertinoro, Italy, February 16–18, 2003 : proceedings / Andrea Asperti, Bruno Buchberger, James H. Davenport (eds.).
  8. ↑ London Mathematical Society Journal of Computation and Mathematics: Editorial; Aims and Scope Archived 15 December 2010 at WebCite