George Adomian (1922 – June 17, 1996)^[1][2] was an American mathematician, aerospace engineer, and academic of Armenian descent.^[1] He developed the Adomian decomposition method (ADM) for solving nonlinear differential equations, both ordinary and partial.^[2] The method is explained, among other places, in his book Solving Frontier Problems in Physics: The Decomposition Method (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2004).^[3]

He was educated at Cass Technical High School in Detroit. He earned a bachelor's of science at the University of Michigan and a PhD in physics from UCLA^[3] in 1961, advised by David Saxon.^[4] His dissertation was titled Linear Stochastic Operators.^[4]

He was a professor at Pennsylvania State University from 1964-66, and then was Chair of Applied Mathematics at the University of Georgia (UGA) from 1966 through 1989. While at UGA, he started the Center for Applied Mathematics.^[3]

He was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.^[2] He was also a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, American Mathematical Society, American Physical Society, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Sigma Pi Sigma.^[2]

• G. Adomian: Stochastic Systems, Academic Press, 1983. ISBN 0-12-044370-8
• G. Adomian: Nonlinear Stochastic Operator Equations, Academic Press, 1986. ISBN 0-12-044375-9
• G. Adomian: Nonlinear Stochastic Systems Theory and Applications to Physics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989. ISBN 90-277-2525-X

• Members of the Faculty of the Mathematics Department University of Georgia