John M. Lee (mathematician)
John "Jack" Marshall Lee (born September 2, 1950 ) is an American mathematician who deals with differential geometry .
Lee graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in 1972, then was a systems programmer (at Texas Instruments and the Princeton Geophysical Hydrodynamics Laboratory) and teacher before continuing his studies at Tufts University and in 1982 with Richard Melrose at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Dissertation: Higher asymptotics of the complex Monge-Ampère equation and geometry of CR manifolds). He was an assistant professor at Harvard and from 1987 at the University of Washington , where he became an associate professor in 1989 and a professor in 1996.
Among other things, he dealt with the Yamabe problem, geometry of and analysis on CR manifolds and differential geometric questions of general relativity (such as the constraint equations for the initial value problem of the Einstein equations, existence of Einstein metrics on manifolds).
In 2012 he and David Jerison received the Bergman Prize from the American Mathematical Society.
He created Mathematica packages for tensor calculus in differential geometry (Ricci).
Fonts
- Riemannian Manifolds: An Introduction to Curvature, Springer-Verlag, Graduate Texts in Mathematics 1997
- Introduction to Topological Manifolds, Springer-Verlag, Graduate Texts in Mathematics 2000, 2011
- Introduction to Smooth Manifolds, Springer-Verlag, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 2002, 2nd edition 2012
- Axiomatic Geometry, AMS 2013
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ John Lee in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lee, John M. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lee, John Marshall (full name); Lee, Jack (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd September 1950 |