Leon Simon
Australian mathematician (born 1945) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the British Zionist intellectual and civil servant, see Leon Simon (Zionist).
Leon Melvyn Simon FAA, born in 1945, is a Leroy P. Steele Prize[1] and Bôcher Prize-winning[2] mathematician, known for deep contributions to the fields of geometric analysis, geometric measure theory, and partial differential equations. He is currently Professor Emeritus in the Mathematics Department at Stanford University.
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Born | (1945-07-06) 6 July 1945 (age 78) |
Alma mater | University of Adelaide |
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Fields | Mathematics |
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Thesis | Interior Gradient Bounds for Non-Uniformly Elliptic Equations (1971) |
Doctoral advisor | James Henry Michael |
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