H. Blaine Lawson

Herbert Blaine Lawson Jr. ( born January 4, 1942 in Norristown, Pennsylvania) is an American mathematician who deals with differential geometry.

In 1969 he received his doctorate from Stanford University with Robert Osserman ( "Minimal varieties in constant curvature manifolds" ). He was a professor at Berkeley and is currently a professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. 1972/73 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study.

In 1970 he was Sloan Fellow and Guggenheim Fellow in 1983. In 1994 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich ( Spaces of algebraic cycles: levels of holomorphic approximation) and also in 1974 in Vancouver (Geometric aspects of the generalized Plateau problem).

He worked among others on minimal surfaces and foliations ( Foliations ). In 1975 he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for " Foliations " ( Bulletin of the AMS, Bd.80, 1974, S.369 -418 ). In 2013 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

His doctoral include William Meeks and Michael Anderson.

Writings

  • With Marie -Louise Michel son "Spin Geometry ", Princeton University Press 1989
  • Lectures on minimal submanifolds, Publish or Perish 1980
  • Theory of Gauge Fields in four dimensions, AMS 1985
  • Quantitative Theory of Foliations, AMS 1977
  • " Foliations ", BAMS 1974
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