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William C. Davidon

Physics

#3591

World Rank

#5066

Historical Rank

#1285

USA Rank

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William C. Davidon's Degrees

Bachelors Physics University of Pennsylvania

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According to Wikipedia, William Cooper Davidon was an American professor of physics and mathematics, and a peace activist. As the mastermind of the March 8, 1971, FBI office break-in, in Media, Pennsylvania, Davidon was the informal leader of the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI. The Media break-in resulted in the disclosure of COINTELPRO, which in turn led to subsequent investigations and reforms of the FBI.

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William C. Davidon's Published Works

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Variable Metric Method for Minimization (1959) (862)
Mathematical Methods of Physics (1965) (532)
Variance Algorithm for Minimization (1968) (454)
Optimally conditioned optimization algorithms without line searches (1975) (261)
Conic Approximations and Collinear Scalings for Optimizers (1980) (112)
New least-square algorithms (1976) (43)
Mathematical Models in Physical Sciences (1964) (43)
Quantum physics of single systems (1976) (40)
Variable metric method for minimization. [In FORTRAN for IBM 704] (1966) (22)
SCATTERING OF POSITIVE PIONS BY HYDROGEN AT 189 MEV (1955) (21)
CAUSALITY IN THE PION-PROTON SCATTERING (1955) (19)
PROPER-TIME ELECTRON FORMALISM (1955) (12)
Comparison of spin-flip dispersion relations with pion-nucleon scattering data (1956) (12)
Consequences of the inertial equivalence of energy (1975) (9)
Fast Trigger Circuit (1956) (9)
Observables in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics (1964) (9)
A Characterization of Convexity‐Preserving Maps from a Subset of a Vector Space into Another Vector Space (2001) (8)
Time-dependent multipole analysis (1973) (8)
An Introduction to Dispersion Relations (1964) (6)
Conjugate Directions for Conic Functions (1982) (6)
Machine analysis of pion scattering by the maximum likelihood method (1957) (5)
A COORDINATE-FREE FOUNDATION FOR PROJECTIVE SPACES TREATING PROJECTIVE MAPS FROM A SUBSET OF A VECTOR SPACE INTO ANOTHER VECTOR SPACE (1999) (5)
Optimization by Non-linear Scaling (1978) (4)
Optimally Conditioned Algorithms without Line Searches (1975) (4)
Proper-Time Quantum Electrodynamics (1955) (4)
On a characterization of convexity-preserving maps, Davidon’s collinear scalings and Karmarkar’s projective transformations (2001) (3)
Notation for quasi-Newton methods (1991) (3)
OCOPTR: a derivative free FORTRAN implementation of Davidon's optimally conditioned method. [Minimizes function of n variables using just function values for IBM computers] (1977) (2)
Kinematics and Dynamics of Elastic Rods (1975) (2)
Conjugate directions in perspective (1996) (1)
Evaluation of step directions in optimization algorithms (2018) (1)
Nomogram for Counting Time (1953) (1)
A method for constrained refinement of crystal structures (1975) (1)
Application of a New Least Squares Method to Structure Refinement (1976) (1)
Fast Least-Squares Algorithms. (1977) (1)
Elementary Particles with the Symmetry of the DeSitter Group (1959) (0)
Spin Momentum Correlation in the Beta Decay of Polarized Li8 Nuclei (1957) (0)
Nomograms for Computing Register Losses (1952) (0)
ECONOMICAL SHIELDING FOR MULTICURIE SOURCES (1953) (0)
Comment on ’’If Maxwell had worked between Ampère and Faraday...’’ (1980) (0)
Nuclear Weapons Test Ban Negotiations (1960) (0)
Contrasts in Education (1958) (0)
Davidon’s Cubic Interpolation (S. K. Park and T. A. Straeter) (1975) (0)
Comment on ’’Protection of authors: The case for anonymous referees’’ (1977) (0)
Soviet Satellites—U.S. Reactions (1957) (0)
Algebraic Description of Motion. (1974) (0)
Book Review: Handbook of numerical analysis (1996) (0)
On the Use of Human Subjects in Psychological Research: (463452008-237) (2013) (0)
Dispersion in the pion-proton scattering (1956) (0)
Symmetry and Conservation in Introductory Physics (1958) (0)
One-dimensional Projective Space: Avatar of a Meridian (2007) (0)
The Modern Roman Circus (1957) (0)
Fast leastsquares algorithms (1977) (0)

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