Announcement – Motivation and Planning for the Formation and Launch of APCMfI
Mathematics for Industry (MfI) aims at the development of mathematics and its applications to enhance the quality of life on the planet by creating new technologies, improve industrial mathematical research andstimulate the twoway interaction between mathematics and industry. In Industrial Mathematics, it is the questions spawned by real world applications that drive the resulting two-way interaction between a particular application and the associated mathematicsthat is utilized and developed and that sometimes involves, quite unexpectedly, deeper aspects and new areas of mathematics than initially anticipated.
Though its significance has often been overlooked, industrial mathematics has always been an essential aspect of the history, culture, traditions and development of mathematics, including much of modern theoretical mathematics. Directly and indirectly, developments in mathematics can be traced to the initial attempts to answer quite practical questions.The development of Galileo’s telescope and the design of clocks represent early stimuli. Harmonic analysis and Fourier analysis havetheir origins in the study of heat transfer in metals. The conservation and minimization of energy engendered in the study of thermodynamics and fluid motion underlie much of the foundations of modern theoretical mathematics as well as applied and industrial..more
Bob Anderssen, Frank de Hoog, Alexandra Hogan (Australia);Zainal Aziz (Malaysia);YasuhideFukumoto, Masato Wakayama (Japan); and Graeme Wake (New Zealand).
