Leon Simon

Leon Melvin Simon ( born July 6, 1945 in Adelaide ) is an Australian mathematician who deals with analysis.

Simon studied at the University of Adelaide ( Bachelor 1967) and received his PhD in 1971 at James H. Michael (Interior Gradient Bounds for Non- Uniformly Elliptic Equations ), while he was a tutor at the University at the same time. After that, he was 1972/73 Lecturer at Flinders University, and from 1973 to 1976 Assistant Professor at Stanford University. 1976/77 he was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Adelaide, 1977/78 Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota. In 1978 he became a professor at the University of Melbourne and in 1981 at the Australian National University. From 1986 he was a professor at Stanford University. He has been a visiting professor at the ETH Zurich.

Simon worked on geometric measure theory, partial differential equations and variational problems.

1974/75 he was a Sloan Fellow. In 1990 he received the Bôcher Memorial Prize in 1983 for work done fundamental contributions to the understanding of singular quantities in the solutions of variational problems, for example in the Plateau problem. In 1983 he was inducted into the Australian Academy of Science, the same year he was awarded the medal of the Australian Mathematical Society. Since 1994 he is member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1983 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw ( Recent developments in the theory of minimal surfaces ).

His doctoral counts Richard Schoen.

Writings

• Lectures on Geometric Measure Theory, Proc. Centre for Mathematical Analysis, Australian National University, Canberra 1983
• An Introduction to Multivariable Mathematics, Morgan and Claypool 2008
• Theorem on regularity and singularity of energy Minimizing Maps, Birkhäuser 1996 ( Lectures at ETH Zurich )