William Mann (mathematician)

William Mann

William Robert Mann (September 21, 1920 – January 20, 2006) was a mathematician from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Mann worked in mathematical analysis. He was the discoverer and eponym of the Mann iteration, a dynamical system in a continuous function. He was one of Frantisek Wolf's students.

Publications

• William Robert Mann, Mean value methods in iteration, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 4, 1953, 506–510
• William Robert Mann and Angus Ellis Taylor, Advanced Calculus, 3rd Edition, John Wiley and Sons, 1983

References

• William Mann at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

External links

• Chapel Hill Memories, [1]