Jon T. Pitts

Jon T. Pitts (born 1948) is an American mathematician working on geometric analysis and variational calculus. He is a professor at Texas A&M University.

Pitts obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1974 under the supervision of Frederick Almgren, with the thesis Every Compact Three-Dimensional Manifold Contains Two-Dimensional Minimal Submanifolds.[1]

He received a Sloan Fellowship in 1981.[2]

The Almgren–Pitts min-max theory is named after his teacher and him.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Jon T. Pitts at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ↑ "Past Fellows". Sloan.org. 2012-07-18. Retrieved 2015-05-16.
  3. ↑ Yashar Memarian. "A Note on the Geometry of Positively-Curved Riemannian Manifolds" (PDF). Arvix.org\accessdate=2015-05-16.

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