Biography:Jon T. Pitts
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Short description: American mathematician
Jon T. Pitts (born 1948) is an American mathematician working on geometric analysis and variational calculus. He is a professor at Texas A&M University.
Pitts obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1974 under the supervision of Frederick Almgren, Jr., with the thesis Every Compact Three-Dimensional Manifold Contains Two-Dimensional Minimal Submanifolds.[1]
He received a Sloan Fellowship in 1981.[2]
The Almgren–Pitts min-max theory is named after his teacher and him.[3]
Selected publications
- "Existence and regularity of minimal surfaces on Riemannian manifolds"
- "Applications of minimax to minimal surfaces and the topology of 3-manifolds"
- "Existence of minimal surfaces of bounded topological type in three-manifolds"
References
- ↑ Jon T. Pitts at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "Past Fellows". Sloan.org. 2012-07-18. http://www.sloan.org/sloan-research-fellowships/past-fellows/?tx_sloangrants_sloanfellows%5Bpage%5D=65&tx_sloangrants_sloanfellows%5BlastPage%5D=188&tx_sloangrants_sloanfellows%5Bsortby%5D=2&tx_sloangrants_sloanfellows%5Border%5D=2&tx_sloangrants_sloanfellows%5Bsearch%5D=&tx_sloangrants_sloanfellows%5Bcontroller%5D=Fellows&cHash=767d61f4d048e9cc78ee91b7c787ed4a. Retrieved 2015-05-16.
- ↑ Yashar Memarian (2013). "A Note on the Geometry of Positively-Curved Riemannian Manifolds". arXiv:1312.0792 [math.MG].
External links
- Home page of Jon T. Pitts at the Texas A&M University
- Tobias Colding & Camillo De Lellis: "The min-max construction of minimal surfaces"
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