doctoral_advisor birth_place nationality doctoral_students field work_institutions known_for residence prizes article_title name alma_mater
richard courant paterson , new jersey american george c. papanicolaou l. mahadevan mathematician new york university stanford university geometrical method theory of diffraction einstein -- brillouin -- keller u.s. timoshenko -lrb- usa -rrb- in mathematical , statistical , and computational medal sciences -lrb- 1988 -rrb- wolf prize -lrb- 1997 -rrb- nemmers -lrb- prize in mathematics -lrb- 1996 -rrb- 1984 -rrb- national medal of science joseph keller
 joseph bishop keller new m.s. , 1946 -rrb- -lrb- ph.d. , 1948 -rrb- york university -lrb- b.a. , 1943 -rrb- -lrb-
joseph keller

joseph bishop keller -lrb- born july 31 , 1923 in paterson , new jersey -rrb- is an american mathematician who specializes in applied mathematics .
he is best known for his work on the `` geometrical theory of diffraction '' -lrb- gtd -rrb- .
