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James Moffat (mathematician)

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James Moffat
Born1948
SpouseJaqueline Elizabeth de Leon
ChildrenLouise, Katherine
AwardsPresident’s Medal of the ORS; the 'nobel medal in analytics'
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh[1]
Newcastle University
ThesisGroups of Automorphisms of Operator Algebras (1974)
Doctoral advisorProf J R Ringrose
Academic work
DisciplineMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Aberdeen
Main interestsQuantum gravity

James Moffat FIMA CMath is a mathematician. He was a boffin in the 1982 Falklands War.[2] He wrote Complexity Theory and Network Centric Warfare,[3] which has 275 scholarly citations.[4]

Moffat is currently Professor of Physics at the University of Aberdeen, where he studies quantum gravity. He has published 135 articles. He is a recipient of the Napier Medal in Mathematics and the President’s Medal of the ORS; the 'nobel medal in analytics'. He is also a Fellow of OR, a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, and a Chartered Mathematician. His contributions to the literature cited 560 times include new theories for Loop Quantum Gravity based on the Mathematics of Operator Algebras.[5]

Moffat was an early writer on the topic of the Agile Organization.[6] Business agility, generally, had been discussed before, but agility, specifically in the context of military organizations, was a new field in 2005.

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References

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  1. ^ "James Moffat". Linked in. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  2. ^ Ramo, Joshua Cooper (23 March 2009). The Age of the Unthinkable. Little Brown. pp. Chapter 9. james moffat mathematician.
  3. ^ Moffat, James (2010). Complexity Theory and Network Centric Warfare (PDF). Diane Publishing. ISBN 978-1893723115. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  4. ^ "book citation count". Google Scholar. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
  5. ^ "Moffat, James". Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  6. ^ Atkinson, Simon; Moffat, James (July 2005). The agile organization: from informal networks to complex effects and agility (PDF). Department of Defense. ISBN 1-893723-16-X.