Joseph Kohn
Joseph John Kohn (born May 18, 1932 in Prague ) is an American mathematician who deals with partial differential equations and the theory of functions of several complex variables.
Live and act
Joseph Kohn is the son of the Prague (later also Ecuadorian) architect Otto Kohn , who was also the father of Miloš Forman . While Forman's mother Anna and her husband Rudolf were murdered in concentration camps, and little Miloš was growing up with friends and relatives, Otto Kohn was able to go together with his wife, son Joseph and many other family members, including the actress and psychotherapist Vera Kohn and her, in June 1939 Man, the architect Karl Kohn , emigrated to Ecuador .
In 1945 the family moved from Ecuador to the USA , where Joseph Kohn attended Brooklyn Tech High School. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, Bachelor 1953) and at Princeton University (Master 1954), where he received his doctorate in 1956 under Donald Spencer ("A Non-Self-Adjoint Boundary Value Problem on Pseudo-Kähler Manifolds"). Then he was at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1957/58 (and also 1961/62, 1976/7, 1988/89). 1956/57 he was an instructor at Princeton. In 1958 he was Assistant Professor, 1962 Associate Professor and 1964 Professor at Brandeis University , where he was chairman of the mathematics faculty from 1963 to 1966.
Since 1968 he has been a professor at Princeton University, where he was chairman of the faculty from 1993–96.
He was u. a. Visiting professor at Harvard University (1996/7), in Prague , Florence , Mexico City (Centro de Estudios del IPN), at Stanford University , the University of California, Berkeley , the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, in Rome , Buenos Aires and at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES).
He worked u. a. also about the application of partial differential equations in the function theory of several complex variables and micro-local analysis . With Louis Nirenberg he introduced pseudo differential operators in 1965 .
Kohn was a Sloan Research Fellow in 1964 and a Guggenheim Fellow in 1976/77. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society . He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1966 and of the National Academy of Sciences since 1988 . From 1976 to 1988 he was editor of the Annals of Mathematics. In 1979 he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize (for "Harmonic Integrals on strongly convex domains 1,2", Annals of Mathematics Vol. 78, 1963, p. 112, Vol. 79, 1964, p. 450), 2004 the Bergman Prize and in 1990 the Bolzano Prize. In 1990 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bologna . In 1966 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Moscow ("Differential complexes") and in 1962 in Stockholm ( Harmonic integrals on non compact complex manifolds ).
literature
- Bloom, Catlin, D´Angelo, Siu (editors) Modern methods in complex analysis. Papers from the conference honoring Robert Gunning and Joseph Kohn on the occasion of their 60. birthdays held at Princeton University 1992 , Princeton University Press 1995
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Story of Famed Czech Director Miloš Forman , August 28, 2017, & Dieter Wunderlich: Miloš Forman
- ^ Kohn, Nirenberg, An algebra of pseudodifferential operators , J. Pure Applied Mathematics, Volume 18, 1965, pp. 269-305.
- ↑ Joseph J. Kohn (PDF; 24 kB) at Princeton University - curriculum vitae (English)
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| SURNAME | Kohn, Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kohn, Joseph John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |