Rufus Bowen

Robert Edward "Rufus" Bowen (February 23, 1947 – July 30, 1978) was an American internationally known but he grew up fifteen miles away in Fairfield, California, where he attended the public schools and graduated from Armijo High School in 1964. His senior yearbook documents that he played two years of varsity basketball, was a member of the science, math, and language clubs, and was President of the senior class. During his first three years of high school, he finished 102nd, 7th, and 2nd among Californians in the MAA (Mathematical Association of America) mathematics test. In 1964, he finished second in the Westinghouse (now Intel) Science Talent Search in Washington, D.C. During his senior year in high school, his first published paper appeared in the American Mathematical Monthly.

As an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, Bowen was a Putnam Fellow in 1964 and 1965. He earned his bachelor's degree from Berkeley where he received, on 15 June 1967, the University Medal as the most distinguished graduating senior. He was "active in organizations devoted to preventing nuclear war." He was an invited speaker at the 1974 International Congress of Mathematicians in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Posthumous honor Since 1981, an eminent mathematician or scientist has spoken each year under the auspices of The Bowen Lectures at Berkeley. According to the university, "The Bowen Lectures are supported by an anonymous donor, who was an undergraduate student of Rufus Bowen." Roger Penrose gave the talks in 2002-3 and Edward Witten lectured in 2006–7.

Selected published works Bowen: "The sequence +1 composite for all ", American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 71 (1964), pp. 175–6. Bowen: "Topological Entropy and Axiom A" in Global Analysis (Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, vol. XIV), American Mathematical Society (Providence, 1970), Shiing-Shen Chern and Stephen Smale, editors, pp. 23–41. Bowen: "Markov partitions for Axiom A diffeomorphisms", American Journal of Mathematics, vol. 92 (1970), pp. 725–747. Bowen: "Periodic points and measures for Axiom A diffeomorphisms", Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 1971, pp. 377–397. Bowen: "Symbolic Dynamics for Hyperbolic Flows" in Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians (Vancouver, 1974), pp. 299–302. Bowen: Equilibrium States and the Ergodic Theory of Anosov Diffeomorphisms. (Lecture Notes in Mathematics, no. 470: A. Dold and B. Eckmann, editors). Springer-Verlag (Heidelberg, 1975), 108 pp. Bowen and David Ruelle: "The ergodic theory of Axiom A flows", Inventiones Mathematicae, vol. 29 (1975), pp. 181–202. Bowen: "Entropy for Maps of the Interval", Topology, vol. 16 (1977); pp. 465–467. Bowen: "A Model for Couette Flow-data", in Turbulence Seminar, Proceedings 1976/77 (New York, 1977), P. Bernard and T. Ratiu, editors; pp. 117–133. Bowen: On Axiom A Diffeomorphisms, (Regional Conference Series in Mathematics, no. 35), Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (Providence, 1978), 45 pp. . Bowen: "Hausdorff Dimension of Quasi-circles", Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS, no. 50 (1979), pp. 11–26. Bowen: Equilibrium States and the Ergodic Theory of Anosov Diffeomorphisms, 2nd Edition, edited by Jean-René Chazottes. Springer-Verlag (Berlin, 2008). .