Mathematician:David Pierre Ruelle

Mathematician

Belgian mathematical physicist, naturalized French.

Has worked on statistical physics and dynamical systems.

Coined the term strange attractor with Floris Takens.

Nationality

Belgian, naturalized French

History

• Born: 20 August 1935 in Ghent, Belgium

Theorems and Definitions

• Dobrushin-Lanford-Ruelle Equations (with Roland Lvovich Dobrushin and Oscar Erasmus Lanford III)
• Ruelle-Perron-Frobenius Theorem (with Oskar Perron and Ferdinand Georg Frobenius)

• Ruelle Zeta Function
• Haag-Ruelle Scattering Theory (with Rudolf Haag)
• Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen Measure (with Yakov Grigorevich Sinai and Robert Edward Bowen)

Results named for David Pierre Ruelle can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for David Pierre Ruelle can be found here.

Publications

• 1978: Thermodynamic formalism: the mathematical structure of equilibrium statistical mechanics
• 1989: Chaotic evolution and strange attractors, Vol. 1
• 1989: Elements of differentiable dynamics and bifurcation theory
• 1993: Chance and chaos
• 1995: Turbulence, strange attractors and chaos
• 1999: Statistical mechanics: Rigorous results
• 2004: Dynamical zeta functions for piecewise monotone maps of the interval