EntityQ14915867· pop 6· linked from 51 articlesPeter OlverSign in to saveAmerican mathematician specialized to the applications of symmetry and Lie groups for PDEsPerson · Open LibraryBorn1952-01-11Works4Top worksValuepackFoundations of Computational Mathematics, Minneapolis 2002Introduction to Partial Differential Equations (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)Introduction To Partial Differential Equationsvia Open Library + WikidataKey datesBorn11 January 1952via Wikidata · CC0Wikidata factsInstance ofhumanGiven namePeterGendermaleCitizenshipUnited StatesPlace of birthMiddlesexOccupationmathematicianEducated atBrown UniversityEmployerUniversity of MinnesotaLanguages spokenEnglish languageDoctoral advisorGarrett BirkhoffConnectionsmathematicsEntityEnglandEntityCategories1952 births20th-century American mathematicians21st-century American mathematiciansBrown University alumniFellows of the American Mathematical SocietyHarvard University alumniLiving peoplePeople from TwickenhamUniversity of Maryland, College Park facultyUniversity of Minnesota faculty