Leon Simon (mathematician)

Leon Melvin Simon (born July 6, 1945 in Adelaide ) is an Australian mathematician who deals with analysis.

Leon Simon in Oberwolfach 2005

Simon studied at the University of Adelaide (bachelor's degree 1967) and received his doctorate there in 1971 with James H. Michael (Interior Gradient Bounds for Non-Uniformly Elliptic Equations), while he was also a tutor at the university. He was then a lecturer at Flinders University in 1972/73 and Assistant Professor at Stanford University from 1973 to 1976 . In 1976/77 he was Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Adelaide, 1977/78 Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota . In 1978 he became a professor at the University of Melbourne and in 1981 at the Australian National University . From 1986 he was a professor at Stanford University. Among other things, he was visiting professor at the ETH Zurich .

Simon dealt with geometric measurement theory, partial differential equations and problems of variation.

In 1974/75 he was a Sloan Research Fellow . He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society . In 1990 he received the Bôcher Memorial Prize for fundamental contributions made from 1983 to the understanding of singular sets in the solutions of variational problems, for example in the plateau problem. In 1983 he was accepted into the Australian Academy of Sciences, in the same year he received the medal of the Australian Mathematical Society . He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1994 . In 1983 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw ( Recent developments in the theory of minimal surfaces ). For 2017 he received the AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research.

Richard Schoen is one of his doctoral students .

Fonts

Lectures on Geometric Measure Theory, Proc. Center for Mathematical Analysis, Australian National University, Canberra 1983
An Introduction to Multivariable Mathematics, Morgan and Claypool 2008
Theorems on regularity and singularity of energy minimizing maps, Birkhäuser 1996 (lectures at ETH Zurich)

Individual evidence

^ AMS :: Leroy P. Steele Prize (1970-1992). Retrieved July 1, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Simon, Leon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Simon, Leon Melvin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Australian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	July 6, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH	Adelaide

[1] AMS :: Leroy P. Steele Prize (1970-1992). Retrieved July 1, 2019 .