Alan Weinstein
Alan David Weinstein (born June 17, 1943 in New York City ) is an American mathematician who studies differential geometry , mechanics, and symplectic geometry.
Weinstein graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a bachelor's degree in 1964 and received his doctorate in 1967 with Shiing-Shen Chern at the University of California, Berkeley ( The cut locus and conjugate locus of a Riemannian Manifold ). Then he was a Moore instructor at MIT (1967) and 1968/69 at the Institute for Mathematics at the University of Bonn . From 1969 he was an assistant professor in Berkeley, where he has been a full professor of mathematics since 1976. 1978/79 he was visiting professor at Rice University . The Weinstein conjecture comes from him (see contact geometry ). He wrote Weinstein's theorem in symplectic geometry.
With Jerrold Marsden , he developed the reduction theory of mechanical systems with symmetry in the early 1970s. In 1978 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki ( Eigenvalues of the Laplacian plus a potential ).
He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Mathematical Society . From 1971 to 1973 he was a Sloan Research Fellow .
Steven Zelditch is one of his PhD students
Fonts
- with A. Cannas da Silva: Geometric models of noncommutative algebras. Berkeley Mathematics Lecture Notes, AMS, 1999.
- with S. Bates: Lectures on the geometry of quantization. AMS 1997.
- with Jerrold Marsden , Anthony Tromba: Basic multivariable calculus. Freeman, 1983.
- with Marsden: Calculus 1,2,3. Springer 1985.
- with Marsden: Calculus Unlimited. Benjamin-Cummings 1981.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2005
- ↑ Alan Weinstein in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Weinstein, Alan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weinstein, Alan David (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |