H. Blaine Lawson
Herbert Blaine Lawson Jr. (born January 4, 1942 in Norristown , Pennsylvania ) is an American mathematician who studied differential geometry .
In 1969 he received his doctorate from Stanford University under Robert Osserman ("Minimal varieties in constant curvature manifolds"). He was a professor at Berkeley and is currently a professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook . In 1972/73 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study .
In 1970 he was a Sloan Research Fellow and in 1983 a Guggenheim Fellow . In 1994 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich (Spaces of algebraic cycles: levels of holomorphic approximation) and also in Vancouver in 1974 (Geometric aspects of the generalized Plateau problem).
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He worked u. a. over minimal areas and foliage (foliations). In 1975 he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for "Foliations" (Bulletin of the AMS, Vol. 80, 1974, pp. 369-418). In 1995 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences and in 2013 a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .
His PhD students include William Meeks and Michael Anderson.
Fonts
- with Marie-Louise Michelsohn “Spin geometry”, Princeton University Press 1989
- Lectures on minimal submanifolds, Publish or Perish 1980
- Theory of Gauge Fields in four dimensions, AMS 1985
- Quantitative Theory of Foliations, AMS 1977
- "Foliations", BAMS, Volume 80, 1974, pp. 369-418
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ H. Blaine Lawson in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
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SURNAME | Lawson, H. Blaine |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lawson, Herbert Blaine |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 4, 1942 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Norristown , Pennsylvania |