About William Mann
Lived 1920 – 2006 (aged 85). William Mann was an American mathematician.
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
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