Peter B. Gilkey
Peter Belden Gilkey (born February 27, 1946 in Utica , New York ) is an American mathematician who deals with differential geometry and global analysis .
Gilkey graduated from Yale University with a master’s degree in 1967 and received his doctorate in 1972 from Harvard University under Louis Nirenberg ( Curvature and the Eigenvalues of the Laplacian for Geometrical Elliptic Complexes ). From 1971/72 he was an instructor in computer science at New York University and from 1972 to 1974 lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley . 1974 to 1980 he was an assistant professor at Princeton University and in 1981 he became an associate professor and 1985 professor at the University of Oregon .
He wrote a textbook on the Atiyah-Singer index theorem . In 1975 he was a Sloan Research Fellow . He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .
Fonts
- Invariance Theory, the Heat Equation and the Atiyah-Singer-Indextheorem , Publish or Perish 1984, Online
- with Tohru Eguchi , Andrew J. Hanson Gravitation, Gauge Theories and Differential Geometry , Physics Reports, Volume 66, 1980, pp. 213-393
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gilkey, Peter B. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gilkey, Peter Belden (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Utica , New York |