Geoffrey Stuart Stephen Ludford (February 2, 1928 – December 11, 1986) was an applied mathematician who worked in the field of fluid dynamics, combustion and magnetohydrodynamics.
He earned his bachelors degree at the University of Cambridge at the age of 20 in 1948.
He started his graduate studies at Cambridge with Leslie Howarth, however moved to Harvard University to work under the supervision of Richard von Mises.
[3] Geoffrey S. S. Ludford completed Richard von Mises book on compressible flow following the death of the latter, along with the help of Hilda Geiringer, a mathematician and the wife of Richard von Mises.
His published books are The NATO advanced research workshop titled Colloque sur la Modélisation Mathématique en Combustion et ses Applications, was conducted in 1986 in Lyon in honor of Geoffrey S. S. Ludford.