Charles Edward Miller Pearce (29 March 1940, Wellington) is a New Zealand/Australian mathematician. He is currently the Elder Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Adelaide.
He earned his Bachelor of Science (a double major in Applied and Pure Mathematics and a further double major in Physics and Mathematical Physics) and in 1962 he earned a Masters of Science with first class honours in Mathematics, all from Victoria University o...
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Charles Edward Miller Pearce (29 March 1940, Wellington) is a New Zealand/Australian mathematician. He is currently the Elder Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Adelaide.
He earned his Bachelor of Science (a double major in Applied and Pure Mathematics and a further double major in Physics and Mathematical Physics) and in 1962 he earned a Masters of Science with first class honours in Mathematics, all from Victoria University of Wellington. The Bachelor's degree was from the University of New Zealand, as the constituent colleges of UNZ, of which Victoria University College was one of four, had proliferated into four autonomous Universities by the time Pearce completed his Masters degree.
His early schooling was in Wellington and he was dux of Hutt Valley High School in 1957.
Pearce throughout his career wore his New Zealand origins with pride. Being descended from Maori people, he could claim his New Zealand ancestry was longer than almost all his peers from New...
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