Joseph Bishop Keller was an American mathematician who specialized in applied mathematics. He was best known for his work on the "geometrical theory of diffraction". Wikipedia
Born: July 31, 1923, Paterson, NJ
Died: September 7, 2016 (age 93 years), Palo Alto, CA
Education: New York University (1940–1948), New York University (1946), New York University (1943), and more
Siblings: Herbert Keller
Awards: Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award (1976, 1977), Ig Nobel Prize (1999, 2012), Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (1977), and more
Research interests: Geopolitics, Emerging Technologies, and Climate Change
Books
Diffraction in Inhomogeneous Media
2015
Determination of Reflected and Transmitted Fields by Geometrical Optics. II
2015
Asymptotic Evaluation of the Field at a Caustic
2015
Reflection of Electromagnetic Waves
2015
Diffraction by a Semi-infinite Screen with a Rounded End
1961
Diffraction by a Smooth Object
2015