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James Sethian
Photographed by Adalien Hulmer (2004)
Born
(1954-05-10) May 10, 1954 (age 70)
Washington, D.C., United States
Nationality
American
Known for
Level-set method Fast marching method Image segmentation Applied mathematics
Awards
Norbert Wiener Prize (2004), ICIAM Pioneer Prize (2011)
Scientific career
Fields
Mathematics
Institutions
Berkeley, Berkeley Lab Courant Inst. Princeton
Doctoral advisor
Alexandre Chorin, Peter Lax
James Albert Sethian is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley and the head of the Mathematics Group [1] at the United States Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Sethian was born in Washington, D.C., on May 10, 1954. He received a B.A. (1976) from Princeton and a M.A. (1978) and Ph.D (1982) from Berkeley under the direction of Alexandre Chorin. Beginning in 1983, he was a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow, lastly at the Courant Institute under Peter Lax. In 1985, he returned to Berkeley to join the mathematics faculty, where he is currently a full professor. Sethian was elected member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 as well as the National Academy of Sciences in 2013. Sethian has acted as Interim Director Research at Thinking Machines Corporation and held visiting positions at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.[1]
James Albert Sethian is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley and the head of the Mathematics Group [1] at the United States...
The fast marching method is a numerical method created by JamesSethian for solving boundary value problems of the Eikonal equation: | ∇ u ( x ) | = 1...
of fast marching methods for triangulated manifolds (together with JamesSethian), the geodesic active contours algorithm for image segmentation, a geometric...
theory to analyze seagrass pollination and later, with mathematician JamesSethian used search theory to develop a new approach to the evolution of different...
Later Sethian texts continue to interact with Platonism. Sethian texts such as Zostrianos and Allogenes draw on the imagery of older Sethian texts, but...
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gospel itself is 3rd century. Documents with a Sethian influence (like the Gospel of Judas, or outright Sethian like Coptic Gospel of the Egyptians) can be...
argues that many neoplatonic concepts and ideas are ultimately derived from Sethian Gnosticism during the third century in Lower Egypt, and that Plotinus himself...
Abel and his (one) sister. In the Apocryphon of John, a work belonging to Sethian Gnosticism, Abel is the offspring of Yaldaboath and Eve, who is placed...
philosophies and was influenced by Christianity and Middle Platonism. The Sethian baptismal rite is known as the Five Seals, in which the initiate is immersed...
scriptures, states that Shem was the first being on Earth. Unlike traditional Sethian literature, Seth is not seen as the father of the followers of Gnosticism...
Mandaean texts and Sethian Gnostic texts from the Nag Hammadi library. Birger A. Pearson also compares the "Five Seals" of Sethianism, which he believes...
energy theorem in general relativity. In the late 80s, Stanley Osher and JamesSethian developed the level-set method as a computational tool in numerical...
The Three Steles of Seth is a Sethian Gnostic text. It is the fifth tractate in Codex VII of the Nag Hammadi library. The writing is in Coptic and takes...
The Thought of Norea is a Sethian Gnostic text. It is the second of three treatises in Codex IX of the Nag Hammadi library texts, taking up pages 27–29...
The First Apocalypse of James is a Gnostic apocalyptic writing. Its initially rediscovery was a Coptic translation as the third tractate of Codex V in...
Carpocrates in the doctrine that the world was made by angels. In the Archontic, Sethian, and Ophite systems, which have many affinities with the doctrine of Valentinus...
of James is a Gnostic writing. It is the fourth tractate in Codex V in the Nag Hammadi library, immediately following the First Apocalypse of James. The...
Trimorphic Protennoia or Three Forms of First Thought is a Sethian Gnostic text from the New Testament apocrypha. The only surviving copy comes from the...
and Ciprian Foias 2000: Alexandre J. Chorin and Arthur Winfree 2004: James A. Sethian 2007: Craig Tracy and Harold Widom 2010: David Donoho 2013: Andrew...
Invisible Spirit, also known as the Coptic Gospel of the Egyptians, is a Sethian Gnostic text found in Codices III and IV of the Nag Hammadi library. The...
Tuomas Rasimus Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence BRILL 2009 ISBN 9789047426707 p. 68 Kurt...
Secret Book of John or the Secret Revelation of John, is a 2nd-century Sethian Gnostic Christian pseudepigraphical text attributed to John the Apostle...
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