Alan B. Tayler
Alan Tayler | |
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| Born | Alan Breach Tayler 5 September 1931 |
| Died | 29 January 1995 (aged 63) Ducklington, Oxfordshire |
| Education | King's College School |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Spouse |
June Earp (m. 1955–1995) |
| Awards | IMA Gold Medal (1982) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Applied mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
| Thesis | Problems in Compressible Flow (1959) |
| Doctoral advisor | George Temple |
| Doctoral students | John Ockendon |
Alan Breach Tayler CBE (1931–1995) was a British applied mathematician and pioneer of "industrial mathematics". He was a Founding Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford (1959-1995), the initiator of the Oxford Study Groups with Industry in 1968 (which developed into the European Study Groups with Industry), a driving force behind the foundation of the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (ECMI) in 1985 and President of ECMI (1989), and the first Director of the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (OCIAM) (1989–1994).