Richard Palais

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Richard Palais (right) and Chuu-Lian Terng (wife) in Oberwolfach, 2010

Richard Sheldon Palais (born May 22, 1931) is a mathematician working in geometry who introduced the Mostow–Palais theorem, the Lie–Palais theorem, the Morse–Palais lemma, and the Palais–Smale compactness condition.

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[1]

Important publications

R. Palais and S. Smale, A generalized Morse theory, Research Announcement, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 70 (1964), 165-172 ()
R. Palais, Morse Theory on Hilbert Manifolds, Topology 2 (1963), 299-340.
R. Palais, Seminar on the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem, Annals of Math. Study, no.4, 1964, Princeton Univ. Press.()
R. Palais, Linear and Nonlinear Waves and Solitons, in The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, T. Gower Ed., Princeton Univ. Press 2008, 234-239 ()
R. Palais, The Symmetries of Solitons, Bulletin. Amer. Math. Soc.,New Series 34, No. 4, 339-403 (1997) [ISSN 0273-0979], ()
R. Palais, The Visualization of Mathematics: Towards a Mathematical Exploratorium, Notices Amer. Math. Soc., 46, No.6 (June-July 1999, , ()
R. Palais, A Simple Proof of the Banach Contraction Principle, The Journal for Fixed Point Theory and its Applications, 2 (2007) 221--223, ()

A nearly complete list of all papers authored or co-authored by Richard Palais is available for downloading as PDF files at http://vmm.math.uci.edu/PalaisPapers

References

↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-05-05.

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Persondata
Name	Palais, Richard
Alternative names
Short description	Mathematician and developer of Mathematical Visualization software.
Date of birth	May 22, 1931
Place of birth	Lynn, Massachusetts
Date of death
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