Robert Finn (mathematician)
Robert Finn (born August 8, 1922 in Buffalo , New York ) is an American mathematician .
Finn received his doctorate in 1951 from Syracuse University under Abe Gelbart ( On some properties of the solution of a class of non-linear partial differential equations ). As a post-doctoral student he was at the Institute for Advanced Study until 1953 and at the Institute for Hydrodynamics at the University of Maryland in 1953/54 . In 1954 he became an assistant professor at the University of Southern California and in 1956 an associate professor at Caltech . Since 1959 he was a professor at Stanford University .
He initially dealt with minimal areas and quasi-conformal images and later with mathematical problems of hydrodynamics, for example in the strict mathematical treatment of capillarity phenomena. He held many visiting professorships, for example at the University of Bonn . Among other things, he was an exchange scientist at the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in 1978 and at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in 1987 .
Since 1985 he has been a corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences . In 1994 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Leipzig . In 1958/58 and 1965/66 he was a Guggenheim Fellow . From 1979 he was editor of the Pacific Journal of Mathematics .
Fonts
- Equilibrium capillary surfaces, Basic Teachings of Mathematical Sciences, Springer Verlag 1986
Individual evidence
- ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Career data based on American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
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| SURNAME | Finn, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buffalo |