Leon Simon

Leon Melvyn Simon

Leon Simon in 2005
(photo from MFO)
Born 6 July 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,
Neshan Wickramasekera
Known for Regularity problem for codimension–1 n–dimensional minimal surfaces
Influenced Geometric measure theory
Notable awards Australian Mathematical Society Medal 1983,
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science 1983,
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.

Biography

Academic career

Leon Simon, born 6 July 1945, received his BSc from the University of Adelaide in 1967, and his PhD 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 1983 Simon was awarded the Australian Mathematical Society Medal. In the same year he was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. 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. 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] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[5]

Work

Research activity

He has an Erdős number of 3. He has authored several mathematics textbooks, including the Lectures on Geometric Measure Theory[6] and An Introduction to Multivariable Mathematics. He published the monograph Theorems on regularity and singularity of energy minimising maps in 1996, based in part on lectures he gave at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) in Zürich.

Teaching activity

Simon has more than 100 'mathematical descendants', according to the Mathematics Genealogy Project.[7] Among his doctoral students there is Richard Schoen, a former winner of the Bôcher Memorial Prize.

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 See (AMS 1994).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 See his brief biography (Walker 2006).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 See his extended biography at the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive.
  4. ↑ See the list of "Fellows". Royal Society. Retrieved 15 October 2010. available at the Royal Society web site.
  5. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 20 July 2013.
  6. ↑ This is basically a textbook describing many results in geometric measure theory and the mathematical tools used in this field: see (Simon 1984).
  7. ↑ See the entry "Leon M. Simon" at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

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