Jeffrey Weeks (mathematician)
Jeffrey Renwick Weeks (born December 10, 1956 ) is an American mathematician.
Weeks studied at Dartmouth College (Bachelor's degree 1978) and received his PhD from Princeton University with William Thurston in 1985 ( Hyperbolic structures on 3 manifolds ).
Weeks dealt with the geometry of low-dimensional manifolds and their applications in cosmology. He hopes to get clues to the topology and geometry of the universe from cosmic microwave data (CMB). In a work from 2003 he favored the (finite) dodecahedron space by Henri Poincaré to explain the lack of correlations for large angular distances in the CMB data. He also wrote programs for visualizing manifolds for educational purposes in schools, which he made freely available, produced a computer film about manifolds ( The shape of space ) and wrote a popular science book on geometry.
In 1999 he was a MacArthur Fellow .
Fonts
- The shape of space- how to visualize surfaces and 3 dimensional manifolds . 1995, 2nd edition, Marcel Dekker 2002
- Is space finite? . Scientific American, April 1999
- Measuring the shape of the universe . Notices AMS, November 1998, pdf
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jean-Pierre Luminet, Weeks, Riazuelo, Lehoucq, Uzan Dodecahedral space topology as an explanation for weak wide-angle temperature correlations in the cosmic microwave background , 2003, shorter version of the article in Nature, Volume 425, 2003, p. 593
- ↑ Weeks' website for his math programs
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Weeks, Jeffrey |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weeks, Jeffrey Renwick (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1956 |