Leon Simon
| Leon Melvyn Simon | |
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Leon Simon in 2005
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| Born | July 6, 1945 |
| Fields | Geometric measure theory, harmonic maps, partial differential equations |
| Institutions | University of Adelaide, Flinders University, Australian National University, University of Melbourne, University of Minnesota, ETH Zurich, Stanford University |
| Alma mater | University of Adelaide |
| Doctoral advisor | James H. Michael |
| Doctoral students | Richard Schoen |
| Known for | Regularity problem for codimension–1  –dimensional minimal surfaces |
| Influenced | Geometric measure theory |
| Notable awards | Bôcher Memorial Prize 1994, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1994, Fellow of the Royal Society 2003 |
Leon Melvyn Simon is a Bôcher Prize-winning[1] mathematician. He is currently Professor in the Mathematics Department at Stanford University.
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Biography
Academic career
Leon Simon, born July 6, 1945, received his B.Sc from the University of Adelaide in 1967, and his Ph.D. in 1971 from the same institution, under the direction of James H. Michael. His doctoral thesis was titled Interior Gradient Bounds for Non-Uniformly Elliptic Equations. He was employed from 1968 to 1971 as a Tutor in Mathematics by the University.
Simon has since held a variety of academic positions. He worked first at Flinders University as a lecturer, then at Australian National University as a professor, at the University of Melbourne, the University of Minnesota, at ETH Zurich, and at Stanford. He first came to Stanford in 1973 as Visiting Assistant Professor and was awarded a full professorship in 1986.
Honours
In 1994, he was awarded the Bôcher Memorial Prize.[1][2][3] The Bôcher Prize is awarded every five years to a groundbreaking author in analysis; its previous recipients include John von Neumann and Richard Schoen (one of Dr. Simon's doctoral advisees), and its more recent recipients include Terence Tao. In the same year he was also elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[2][3] In May 2003 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society.[4]
Work
Research activity
He has an Erdos number of 3. He has authored several mathematics textbooks, including the Lectures on Geometric Measure Theory[5] and An Introduction to Multivariable Mathematics. He published the monograph Theorems on regularity and singularity of energy minimizing maps in 1996, based in part on lectures he gave at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) in Zürich.
Teaching activity
Simon has 78 'mathematical descendants', according to the Mathematics Genealogy Project.[6] Among his doctoral students there is Richard Schoen, a former winner of the Bôcher Memorial Prize.
See also
References
- ^ a b See (AMS 1994).
- ^ a b See his brief biography (Walker 2006).
- ^ a b See his extended biography at the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive.
- ^ See the list of "Fellows". Royal Society. http://royalsociety.org/about-us/fellowship/fellows/. Retrieved 15 October 2010. available at the Royal Society web site.
- ^ This is basically a textbook describing many results in geometric measure theory and the mathematical tools used in this field: see (Simon 1984).
- ^ See the entry "Leon M. Simon" at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
Bibliography
- AMS (February 1994), "Leon Simon receives 1994 Bôcher Memorial Prize", Notices of the American Mathematical Society 41 (2): 99–100, MR1262536.
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F. (November 2006), "Leon Melvyn Simon", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Simon.html.
- Walker, Rosanne (25 May 2006) [2001], "Simon, Leon (1945 – )", Encyclopedia of Australian Science, Melbournr: eScholarship Research Centre, http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003748b.htm.
References
- Simon, Leon (1984), Lectures on Geometric Measure Theory, Proceedings of the Centre for Mathematical Analysis, 3, Canberra: Centre for Mathematics and its Applications (CMA), Australian National University, pp. VII+272 (loose errata), ISBN 0-86784-429-9, MR0756417, Zbl 0546.49019, http://maths.anu.edu.au/research.publications/proceedings/003/.