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MARKUS, LAWRENCE, retired mathematics professor;
b. Hibbing, Minn., Oct. 13, 1922; s' Benjamin and Ruby
(Friedman) M.; m. Lois Shoemaker, Dec. 9, 195O;
pAANfe vv--MAEaS
(1954-19951 was a phenomenal linauist and a brilliant
E1hglel. His early talents
Minnesota, top puoil at Ecole Nouvelle, Lausanne)
anticipated his BA, summa cum laude at HArvard, 1975,
fellowship with Keio lJniversitv. ToKvo, and PhD from
Yale, 1985. .The pubtication of his book. "The Willow in
Autu mn : Ruutei Tan ehi ko, 1 ZE9:L-892-UAruerd
IJniversitv Press 1992). braught acclaim as an authoriU
on the cultural historv of Edo and an appointment as an
Associate Professor of Japanese at the Universitv of
lUashingtan, where hls schalarship is novt
commemorated through an endowed lectureship. BS' U.
Chgo., 1942, MS, 1946; PhD, Harvard U', Cambridge'
Mass., 1951. lnstr. meteorology U. Chgo.' 1942'44;
rsch. meteorologist Atomic Project, Hanford, 1944; instr.
math. Harvard U., 1951-52; instr' Yale U.' 1952-55; lectr.
Princeton U., 1955-57; asst. prof. U. Minn., Mpls.'
'1960-93'
1957-58, assoc. prof., 1958-60, prof. math.,
child ren : Sylvia, Andr ew.S
assoc. chmn. dept. math., 1961-63, dir. control scis.,
1964-7g, Regents' prof. math., 1980-93, Regents' prof.
emeritus, 1993-, dir. Control Sci' and Dynamical Sys.
Ctr., 1980-89. Leverhulme prof. controltheory dir.
control theory ctr. U. Warwick, Eng., 1970'73, Nuffield
prof. math., 1970-85, hon. prof., 1985-; regional conf.
lectr. NSF, 1969; vis. prof. Yale U., Columbia U., U'
Calif., U. Warsaw, 1980, Tech. lnst. Zurich, 1983, Peking
U. (China), 1983; dir. conf' lnternat. Ctr' Math'' Trieste,
1974; lectr. lnternat. Math. Qongress, 1974, lranian
Math. Soc., 1975, Brit. Math. Soc', 1976, Japan Soc. for
Promotion Sci., 1976, Royal lnstn., London, 1982' U.
Beer Sheva, lsrael, 1983; vis. prof. U' Tokyo, 1976'
Tech. U., Denmark, 1979; mem. panel lnternat.
Congress Mathematicians, Helsinki, 1978; sr' vis. fellow
Sci. Rsch. Coun., lmperial Coll., London, 1978; mem.
UNESCO sci. adv. com. Control Symposium, U'
Strasbourg, France, 1980; IEEE Plenary lectr., Orlando,
Fla., 1982; Sci. and Engring. Rsch. Coun. vis. prof' U.
Wanruick, Eng., t982-90; Neustadt Meml' lectr. U. So'
Calif., 1985, prin. leetr. symposium U' Minn', 1988' dir'
NSF workshop, 1989, prin. lectr. symposium in honor of
his 75th birthday, 1997; Tate lectr. U' Cin., 1998; chmn.
Conf. Markus-8O, 2002; adv. bd. Office Naval Rsch., Air
Force Office Sci. Rsch. Author: Flat Lorentz Manifolds,
; 1959, Flows on Homogeneous Spaces, 1963,
Foundations of Optimal Control Theory, 1967, rev. edit.,
1985, Lectures on Differentiable Dynamics, 1971 ; rev.
edit., 1980, Generic Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems,
1974, Distributed Parameter Control Systems, 1991 ,
Boundary Value Problems and Symplectic Algebra,
1998, Multi-lnterval Linear Ordinary Boundary Value
Problems and Complex Symplectic Algebra, 2O01,
Elliptic Partial Differential Operators and Symplectic
Algebra, 2003, lnfinite Dimensional Complex Symplectic
Spaces, 2004; editor lnternat. Jour. Nonlinear
Mechanics, 1965-73, Jour. Control, 1963-67; mem. editl.
bd. Proc. Georgian Acad. Sci. Math., 1993-; contbr.
articles to profl. jours Lt. (j.g.) USNR, 1944-46. Recipient
Rsch. prize lnternat. Conf. Nonlinear Oscillations,
Ukrainian Acad. Sci., Kiev, 1969, Festschrift volume,
1993; Fulbright fellow Paris, 195O; Guggenheim fellow
Lausanne, Switzerland, 1963; Disting. Tchg. award, U.
Minn., 1968. Fellow Royal Soc. Edinburgh (hon.); mem.
Am. Math. Soc. (past mem. nat. coun.), Am. Geophys.
Soc., Soc. Indsl. and Applied Math. (past nat. lectr.), Phi
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