Peter Jones (mathematician)

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Peter Wilcox Jones (* 1952 ) is an American mathematician who deals with analysis .

Jones received his PhD in 1978 from the University of California, Los Angeles with John Brady Garnett ( Constructions with functions of bounded mean oscillation ). He was then a lecturer at the University of Chicago , where he received a full professorship in 1985. He is the James E. English Professor of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at Yale University , where he has been a professor since 1985. Among other things, he was visiting scholar at the University of Paris-Süd in Orsay and for two years Assistant Director at the Mittag-Leffler Institute .

Jones is into harmonic analysis. In 1988, together with Thomas Wolff , he proved a conjecture about the Hausdorff dimension of harmonic dimensions on the plane. In applied mathematics, he also examined search engine strategies and data preparation for biology and medicine.

In 1990, he solved the ongoing traveling salesman problem .

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences . In 1981 he received the Salem Prize . In 1993 he received an honorary doctorate from the Royal Stockholm University of Technology . Jones was also a Sloan Research Fellow . In 2010 he gave a plenary lecture at the ICM in Hyderabad (Eigenfunctions and coordinate systems on manifolds).

Since 1999 he has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the IPAM Institute of the National Science Foundation.

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Individual evidence

  1. Peter Jones in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. Jones rectifiable sets and the Traveling Salesman Problem, Inventiones Mathematicae 102, 1990, 1-15.