Peter John Olver (11 January 1952, Twickenham) is a British-American mathematician working in differential geometry.
His PhD thesis was entitled "Symmetry Groups of Partial Differential Equations" and was written under the supervision of Garrett Birkhoff.
[4][5][6] He was elected fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2013[7] and of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2014, for "developing new geometric methods for differential equations leading to applications in fluid mechanics, elasticity, quantum mechanics, and image processing.
"[8] Olver is also member of International Society for the Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics[9] and an elected fellow of the Institute of Physics.
[16][17] He has also contributed to various topics in applied mathematics, including image processing and computer vision,[18][19][20] wave and fluid mechanics,[21][22] and elasticity.