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	ICMI Bulletin No. 45, December 1998
		The death occured in July of James Lighthill who was President of ICMI from 1971 to 1975.
		Lighthill was one of the leading applied mathematicians of the century and a phenomenally gifted person.
		Lighthill's contributions to mathematics education were mainly made in the 1960s and 1970s.
	www.mathunion.org /ICMI/bulletin/45/Lighthill.html (292 words)

	Lighthill biography
		Lighthill held the Lucasian chair for 10 years and was proud to hold the chair once held by Newton.
		Lighthill certainly attracted attention in many ways such as in 1959 when he was fined £1 in a very public court case in which he was accused of jumping off a moving train.
		James Lighthill was indeed a brilliant scientist; but he was also a polymath, with knowledge, insight and enthusiasm for the arts and humanities.
	www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /Biographies/Lighthill.html (1937 words)

	Sir James Lighthill Obituary Notice
		Sir James Lighthill, mathematician and Provost of University College London, 1979-89, died while attempting to swim around Sark Island on July 17, 1998 aged 74.He was born on January 23, 1924.
		In 1979 Lighthill took on a more administrative role, as Provost of University College London, where his scientific interests were a considerable contrast to the literary and historical pursuits of his predecessor, Lord Annan.
		Lighthill was a member of numerous learned societies at home and abroad, and held 24 honorary doctorates.
	lisgi1.engr.ccny.cuny.edu /light1.htm (1016 words)

	Review of ``Artificial Intelligence: A General Survey''
		Lighthill defines a robot as a program or device built neither to serve a useful purpose nor to study the central nervous system, which obviously would exclude Unimates, etc. which are generally referred to as industrial robots.
		Lighthill discusses the combinatorial explosion problem as though it were a relatively recent phenomenon that disappointed hopes that unguided theorem provers would be able to start from axioms representing knowledge about the world and solve difficult problems.
		Lighthill had his shot at AI and missed, but this doesn't prove that everything in AI is ok. In my opinion, present AI research suffers from some major deficiencies apart from the fact that any scientists would achieve more if they were smarter and worked harder.
	www-formal.stanford.edu /jmc/reviews/lighthill/lighthill.html (2668 words)

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		Lighthill had learned a lot during the two years in the war effort in applied mathematics, but he had felt terribly frustrated because he wanted to be a pure mathematician.
		Lighthill is proud of his aero-acoustical contributions, because they have clearly influenced the whole development of civil aviation, and because they made it possible for jets to be more powerful and quieter.
		Lighthill was elected a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society in 1961 and is a Fellow of the American Institute Aeronautics and Astronautics.
	www.cfm.brown.edu /people/marmanis/lighthill.html (2751 words)

	January 23 - Today in Science History
		Sir Michael James Lighthill was a British mathematician who contributed to supersonic aerofoil theory and, aeroacoustics which became relevant in the design of the Concorde supersonic jet, and reduction of jet engine noise.
		Lighthill's eighth power law which states that the acoustic power radiated by a jet is proportional to the eighth power of the jet speed.
		James Hardy at the University of Mississippi transplanted the heart of a chimpanzee (named Bino) into the chest of Boyd Rush (age 68) in a last-ditch effort to save the man's life because no human was heart available.
	www.todayinsci.com /1/1_23.htm (2734 words)

	Lighthill Institute of Mathematical Science
		James was amongst the Wranglers when he completed the Maths Tripos two years later; he took only pure maths papers, because he said these could be most useful in his planned career in applied mathematics.
		Lighthill extended this thinking to the calculation of complicated flows around and within real objects, whether they were aeroplanes, swimming fish, or the ear.
		Perhaps we will be reminded of James in future when, like the widow in Charles Kingsley's Westward Ho, we hear the stones crashing and rolling on the beach and think of the group velocity of the waves bringing his energy, spirit and inspiration from somewhere far away.
	www.ucl.ac.uk /lims/lighthill.htm (1851 words)

	The First Century of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (1908-2008) - History of ICMI
		James Lighthill was born in Paris on 23 January 1924.
		In particular, "Lighthill's Law", which states that "the acoustic power radiated by a jet is proportional to the eighth power of the jet speed" (HUSSAINI 1997, xxv), was of immediate importance in reducing jet-engine noise.
		Sir James was once accurately called "an amazingly extrovert and engaging personality" (THWAITES 1998, 497), and these qualities were undoubtedly reflected in his teaching style when lecturing on mathematics.
	www.icmihistory.unito.it /portrait/lighthill.php (1742 words)

	article27.htm
		Lighthill was a peerless applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist, one of the greatest of this century; of whom Sydney Goldstein, I believe, said that whatever he touched he turned to gold.
		Whitham and Lighthill showed that, although the magnitudes of the disturbances were correctly given by linear acoustic theory, the characteristics along which the disturbances propagate were not and had to be correctly accounted for in the nonlinear theory.
		Lighthill was able to cleverly model the device and process and, as in so much of his other work, use complex analysis to pull out the relevant answers.
	www.ias.ac.in /currsci/aug/articles27.htm (1269 words)

	James Lighthill, 74, an Innovative Mathematician - New York Times
		Sir James Lighthill, an innovative British mathematician whose ideas about aerodynamics influenced the design of the supersonic Concorde, died on July 17 while he was trying to swim around the Isle of Sark in the English Channel.
		Lighthill was trying to repeat a swim he first made 25 years earlier, for which he applied a scientific approach using a ''two-arm, two-leg backstroke, thrusting with arms and legs alternately.'' His body was found in rough seas off Sark.
		Lighthill, who was the Provost of University College, London, from 1979 to 1989 and who held the Lucasian Chair of Applied Mathematics at Cambridge University in the 1970's, a position in which he preceded Stephen Hawking, made early discoveries in mathematical modeling of how creatures swim, fly and move about.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9904E4DE1E38F931A3575BC0A96E958260 (440 words)

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		Michael James Lighthill was born in 1924 in Paris.
		It is said that Lighthill developed the mathematical ideas for the first of these papers in only two weeks but for 16 months held off submitting it for publication until he had worked and reworked his results making the mathematical implications of more use in jet engine design.
		He was famous for his gestures and physical movements during his lectures whether he was demonstrating sound radiation from Monopoles, Dipoles and Quadrupoles, the flight of insects or birds, and the inrush of moist air and its subsequent rapid rise at the eye-wall of a tropical cyclone (from sea level to the stratosphere base).
	www.auburn.edu /isvd/v5n1may99.txt (12225 words)

	AEM News
		The Sir James Lighthill Distinguished Lectureship Award was established to honor leaders in mathematical sciences and to attract them to visit the Florida State University to give lectures, inspire students and interact with the faculty and students.
		James spoke on "Lessons on Structure from the Structure of Viruses" and "A relation between compatibility and hysteresis and its role in the search for new smart materials".
		James is a Russell J. Penrose Professor, a chair in AEM endowed by Russell Penrose.
	www.aem.umn.edu /info/News.shtml (779 words)

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		Michael James Lighthill was born in Paris, on 23 January 1924, and excelled across the board at Winchester before going up to Trinity College Cambridge in 1941 for a two-year wartime B.A..
		Remarkably, the Lighthill theory was sufficiently versatile for it to be applied also to problems as diverse as the heating of the sun’s corona and the noise heard under water due to breaking surface waves and splashing drops.
		From 1979 to 1989 Lighthill was Provost of University College London, much engaged in fundraising, in new developments in the College, particularly in the biology and biotechnology sides, and in dramatically improving the representation of women in senior posts.
	www.ntu.edu.sg /home/myzhao/lighthll.htm (1280 words)

	Lucasian Chair
		M.J. Lighthill and Goldstein S. A note on the hodograph transformation for the two-dimensional vortex flow of an incompressible fluid.
		Lighthill, J., Holland, G., Gray, W., Landsea, C., Craig, C., Evans, J., Kurihara, Y. and C. Guard (1994) Global climate change and tropical cyclones.
		Sir James Lighthill "Ocean Spray and the Thermodynamics of Tropical Cyclones" Levich Institute Special Seminar.
	www.lucasianchair.org /bibliographies/lighthill-bibB.html (1222 words)

	Sir James Lighthill
		He made important contributions to the theory of sound produced aerodynamically, to non-linear acoustics, and to fluid flow in biological systems, such as fish swimming and animal breathing.
		Sir Michael James Lighthill (23 January 1924 - 17 July 1998) was a British applied mathematician, known for his pioneering work in the field of Aeroacoustics.
		In 1964 he became the Royal Society's resident professor at Imperial College London, before returning to Trinity College, Cambridge, five years later as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, a chair he held until 1979, when he was succeeded by Stephen Hawking.
	encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com /pages/20491/Sir-James-Lighthill.html (297 words)

	Lightill, Micheal James
		Sir James Lighthill was known as Michael Lighthill when he was a young man. He was educated at Winchester College and, at the age of 15 he won a scholarship to Trinity College Cambridge.
		Lighthill certainly attracted attention in many ways such as in 1959 when he was fined 1 pound in a very public court case in which he was accused of jumping off a moving train.
		The accident was reported in [2]:- Sir James Lighthill was found in rough seas off the island's rocky coast more than nine hours after he stepped into the waves for the nine mile swim.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/L/Lighthill/1.html (1663 words)

	No. 2250: Sir Michael James Lighthill
		Lighthill, now Sir James, had far more facets than were visible to anyone at one time.
		His father switched to the English version Lighthill during WW-I. They went back to England when precocious James was three.
		But the sixth try was 74-year-old James Lighthill's last experiment in fluid mechanics.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi2250.htm (578 words)

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		On behalf of Sir James Lighthill, of London, England, the first President of IIAV, and the officers and directors, it is my pleasure to invite you to consider becoming a member if you are not already.
		Sir James Lighthill is one of the great applied mathematicians of the 20th century having made very important contributions in the understanding of jet noise.
		Volume IV contains Lighthill's papers on biological fluid dynamics (both external and internal) and collects together many of his important papers on bird, bat and insect flight, theories for the swimming of fish, and fluid mechanics in the inner ear (cochlea).
	www.auburn.edu /isvd/v3n2jun97.txt (8626 words)

	SIAM: The Passing of a Giant
		Twenty-five years ago, Sir James Lighthill became the first swimmer to complete the nine-mile circuit around the English Channel Island of Sark, 35 miles southwest of Cherbourg.
		Lighthill's legacy of research is available in four volumes published by the Oxford University Press, The Collected Works of Sir James Lighthill (edited by M.Y. Hussaini, 1997).
		The International Symposium on Theoretical and Computational Fluid Mechanics held at Florida State University in November 1996 was a tribute to Lighthill's deep and wide-ranging contributions.
	www.siam.org /news/news.php?id=885 (581 words)

	Sir James Lighthill (1924-1998)
		Sir James Lighthill was found in rough seas off the island's
		Twenty-five years ago, James Lighthill became the first person to swim around the Channel Island of Sark, calling it
		Considered by his peers to be one of the great mathematicians of the century, perhaps even a genius, Lighthill was
	www.ntu.edu.sg /home/mdamodaran/M447/lighthill.htm (1129 words)

	SIR JAMES LIGHTHILL AND MODERN FLUID MECHANICS
		This is perhaps the first book containing biographical information of Sir James Lighthill and his major scientific contributions to the different areas of fluid mechanics, applied mathematics, aerodynamics, linear and nonlinear waves in fluids, geophysical fluid dynamics, biofluiddynamics, aeroelasticity, boundary layer theory, generalized functions, and Fourier series and integrals.
		Special efforts is made to present Lighthill’s scientific work in a simple and concise manner, and generally intelligible to readers who have some introduction to fluid mechanics.
		By providing detailed background information and knowledge, sufficient to start interdisciplinary research, it is intended to serve as a ready reference guide for readers interested in advanced study and research in modern fluid mechanics.
	www.icpress.co.uk /mathematics/p546.html (188 words)

	Haralambos Marmanis: Obituary to Sir James Lighthill (1924-1998)
		Sir James Lighthill F.R.S., founder President of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, was one of the scientists who were interviewed by Louis Wolpert, for his BBC Radio series "Passionate Minds", published by OUP in 1997.
		Sir James: Well one of my famous swims is the one around Sark which I've done five times, and one of them was during a south-westerly gale which was the one that actually caused the Fastnet disaster.
		Sir James: And, of course, you meet seals and all sorts of interesting animals who have a fellow feeling with swimmers when you do these swims.
	www.cfm.brown.edu /people/marmanis/lighthill2.html (466 words)

	Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith / Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation / John Jefferson Davis / ...
		It is the purpose of this paper to review the historical origins of chaos theory and some of its key features, and then to reflect theologically on its implications for a Christian view of the world.
		James Crutchfield has concluded that the hope that physics could offer a complete description of physical reality through an increasingly detailed understanding of fundamental particles and forces is unfounded.
		James Lighthill, "The Recently Recognized Failure of Predictability in Newtonian Dynamics," Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A 407 (1986): 35-50 at 38, 35.
	www.asa3.org /ASA/PSCF/1997/PSCF6-97Davis.html (5515 words)

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		It is now 54 years since the late Sir James Lighthill published his famous pair of papers "On sound generated aerodynamically".
		The second spatial derivatives on the right reflect the absence of localized external forces, implying that the nonlinear terms represent internal eddy stresses.
		If the Rossby number is small, this weakens the spontaneous imbalance and emission still further (probably from algebraic to exponential smallness), strengthening Lighthill's argument.
	www.nwra.com /siw1/mcintyre.html (477 words)

	IngentaConnect Lighthill and the triple-deck, separation and transition
		In 1953 James Lighthill, conducting an investigation into the potential mechanisms for upstream influence within boundary layers in supersonic flow, published a theoretical approach which explicitly took into account the influence of viscosity on a disturbance to an incident boundary-layer profile.
		The physical process he identified is now referred to as a pressure-displacement (or viscous-inviscid) interaction.
		This article discusses Lighthill's original paper and then proceeds to show how an appreciation of this interaction mechanism can help in the solution of many other problems in fluid mechanics and especially those of flow separation and late-stage laminar-turbulent transition.
	www.ingentaconnect.com /content/klu/engi/2006/00000056/00000004/00009093 (200 words)

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