James Burton Serrin (1 November 1926, Chicago, Illinois – 23 August 2012, Minneapolis, Minnesota) was an American mathematician, and a professor at University of Minnesota.
[1] He graduated from Evanston Township High School in 1944.
He then studied engineering and science at Northwestern University in 1944 to 1946 before transferring Western Michigan College, where he a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1947.
He received his doctorate from Indiana University Bloomington in 1951 under the supervision of David Gilbarg.
[2][3][4] He is known for his contributions to continuum mechanics, nonlinear analysis,[5] and partial differential equations.