Jerry Lawrence Kazhan (born October 31, 1937 in Detroit, Michigan ) is a mathematician working in differential geometry and differential equations .
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Biography
He received his bachelor's degree in 1959 from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and his master's degree in 1961 from New York University. He received his Ph.D. in 1963 at the Courant Institute at New York University , under the guidance of . He taught at Harvard University . Since 1966, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania .
Scientific contribution
- Berger-Kazhdan comparison theorem
- The problem of prescribed scalar curvature
- Together with Deturk , he reproved the result obtained earlier by Shefel that the harmonic coordinates give an atlas of the highest degree of smoothness for a given Riemannian manifold . [2] [3]
Recognition
In 1999 he was awarded the Prize . [four]
Notes
- ↑ Mathematical Genealogy - 1997.
- ↑ Shefel, S. Z. "Conformal correspondence of metrics and smoothness of isometric immersions." Siberian Mathematical Journal 20.2 (1979): 397-401.
- ↑ Dennis DeTurck, Jerry Kazdan Some regularity theorems in the Riemannian geometry. Ann. Sci. École Norm. Sup. (4) 14 (1981), no. 3, 249–260.
- ↑ Kazdan, JL Solving equations, an elegant legacy (Eng.) // Amer. Math Monthly : journal. - 1998. - Vol. 105 - P. 1-21 . - DOI : 10.2307 / 2589521 .
Links
- Jerry Kazdan's homepage
- Lester R. Ford award