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Professor James Davenport
James Davenport in 2001
Born
James Harold Davenport

1953 (age 70–71)[citation needed]
Scientific career
FieldsCryptography
Computer algebra systems[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
University of Bath
ThesisOn the integration of algebraic functions (1979)
Doctoral advisorJohn Peter Fitch
Arthur Charles Norman[2]
Doctoral studentsJohn 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]
Websitepeople.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 of 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. ^ a b James H. Davenport publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. ^ a b James H. Davenport at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ James H. Davenport's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  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 December 16, 2010, at WebCite