Jon T. Pitts
Jon T. Pitts (1948–2024)[1] was an American mathematician working on geometric analysis and variational calculus. He was 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.[2]
He received a Sloan Fellowship in 1981.[3]
The Almgren–Pitts min-max theory is named after his teacher and him.[4]
Selected publications
[edit]- "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
[edit]- ^ "Jon T. Pitts Obituary 2024". Hillier Funeral Home & Cremations. Retrieved 2024-06-08.
- ^ Jon T. Pitts at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Past Fellows". Sloan.org. 2012-07-18. Retrieved 2015-05-16.
- ^ Yashar Memarian (2013). "A Note on the Geometry of Positively-Curved Riemannian Manifolds". arXiv:1312.0792 [math.MG].
External links
[edit]- 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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