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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2025-09-30 human Helen Cohn updated 2025-10-14 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007866b.htm person Fitzpatrick Simon Peter AACR2 29 July 1953 21 August 2004 Place of Birth Perth, Western Australia, Australia Place of Death Perth, Western Australia, Australia Mathematician Chess champion Simon Fitzpatrick was a mathematician whose research interests included monotone operators on Banach spaces; geometry of Banach spaces; differentiability of functions on Banach spaces; and probability theory. For ten years he lectured at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, having a productive collaboration with fellow mathematician Bruce Calvert; they published 11 papers during this period. Equally fruitful were contacts he maintained with John Giles at the University of Newcastle, and Jonathan Borwein in Canada. Fitzpatrick moved to the University of Western Australia in 1991, teaching undergraduate courses and reviewing second year curriculum in mathematics and statistics. Such was his concern for the standards of teaching that he accepted the role of Chief Examiner for the tertiary entrance calculus examination for 1994 - 1996. Fitzpatrick was a chess champion, having been the Western Australian Junior Chess state champion from age 12 to 17. In later years, as his health deteriorated, he was an enthusiastic player of correspondence chess, being named International Correspondence Master in 1999 by the International Correspondence Chess Federation. 1974 1974 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc (hons)), University of Western Australia 1980 1980 Education - PhD, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. March 1980 August 1980 Career position - Visiting Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Mathematics and Statistics, Melbourne August 1980 1982 Career position - Visiting Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, Champaigne-Illinois, U.S.A. 1982 1988 Career position - Lecturer in mathematics, University of Auckland, New Zealand 1986 1987 Career position - Assistant Editor and Problems Editor, Mathematical chronicle 1988 1991 Career position - Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland, New Zealand 1991 2004 Career position - Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Western Australia 1999 1999 Award - International Correspondence Master, the International Correspondence Chess Federation 2000 2000 Career position - Captain of the Australian correspondence team, CC Olympiad XIV preliminaries Borwein, Jonathan Michael (1951 - 2016) Giles, John Robilliard (1933 - 2024) The University of Western Australia (1911 - )

Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Statistics 1991 - 2004

 'Fitzpatrick, Simon Peter', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Fitzpatrick, Simon Peter Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Convex bodies in $R\sp 3$ invariant under projections Fitzpatrick, Simon and Calvert, Bruce Convex bodies in $R\sp 3$ invariant under projections 1991 Mathematical chronicle 20 89-108 Journal Article: The differentiability of real functions on normed linear space using generalized subgradients Borwein, Jonathan M., Fitzpatrick, Simon P. and Giles, John R. The differentiability of real functions on normed linear space using generalized subgradients 1987 Journal mathematical analysis and applications 128 2 512-34 Journal Article: Existence of nearest points in Banach spaces Borwein, Jonathan M. and Fitzpatrick, Simon Existence of nearest points in Banach spaces 1989 Canadian journal of mathematics 41 4 702-20 Journal Article: The conjugates, compositions and marginals of convex functions Fitzpatrick, Simon P. and Simons, S. The conjugates, compositions and marginals of convex functions 2001 Journal of convex analysis 8 2 423-46 Thesis: The differentiability of distance functions and the GSP in Banach spaces Fitzpatrick, Simon The differentiability of distance functions and the GSP in Banach spaces University of Seattle 1980 Journal Article: Simon Fitzpatrick memorial volume Borwein, Jonathan M. Simon Fitzpatrick memorial volume 2006 Journal of convex analysis 13 3 463-76 Journal Article: Tribute for Simon Fitzpatrick Calvert, Bruce Tribute for Simon Fitzpatrick 2004 Newsletter of the New Zealand Mathematical Society 92 22-3 Journal Article: Simon Fitzpatrick 29 July 1953 - 21 August 2004 Praeger, Cheryl Simon Fitzpatrick 29 July 1953 - 21 August 2004 2004 Gazette of the Australian Mathematical Society 31 5 309-10