Leon Simon
| Leon Melvyn Simon | |
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Leon Simon in 2005
(photo from MFO) |
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| Born | 6 July 1945 |
| Fields | Geometric measure theory, harmonic maps, partial differential equations |
| Institutions | |
| Alma mater | University of Adelaide |
| Thesis | Interior Gradient Bounds for Non-Uniformly Elliptic Equations (1971) |
| Doctoral advisor | James Henry Michael |
| Doctoral students | |
| Known for | Regularity problem for codimension–1 –dimensional minimal surfaces |
| Influenced | Geometric measure theory |
| Notable awards | |
Leon Melvyn Simon (born 1945) is a Bôcher Prize-winning mathematician. He is currently Professor in the Mathematics Department at Stanford University.
Leon Simon, born 6 July 1945, received his BSc from the University of Adelaide in 1967, and his PhD in 1971 from the same institution, under the direction of James H. Michael. His doctoral thesis was titled Interior Gradient Bounds for Non-Uniformly Elliptic Equations. He was employed from 1968 to 1971 as a Tutor in Mathematics by the University.
Simon has since held a variety of academic positions. He worked first at Flinders University as a lecturer, then at Australian National University as a professor, at the University of Melbourne, the University of Minnesota, at ETH Zurich, and at Stanford. He first came to Stanford in 1973 as Visiting Assistant Professor and was awarded a full professorship in 1986.
In 1983 Simon was awarded the Australian Mathematical Society Medal. In the same year he was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. In 1994, he was awarded the Bôcher Memorial Prize. The Bôcher Prize is awarded every five years to a groundbreaking author in analysis. In the same year he was also elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In May 2003 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
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