Alan Weinstein

Alan David Weinstein ( born June 17, 1943 in New York City ) is an American mathematician who deals with differential geometry, mechanics and symplectic geometry.

Weinstein studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a Bachelor 's degree in 1964 and 1967 at Shiing - Shen Chern at the University of California, Berkeley PhD ( The cut locus and conjugate locus of a Riemannian manifold ). He then Moore Instructor at MIT (1967) and in 1968/69 at the Institute of Mathematics of the University of Bonn. From 1969 he was an assistant professor at Berkeley, where he has a full professor of mathematics since 1976. 1978/79 he was a visiting professor at Rice University.

By Jerrold Marsden he developed in the early 1970s, the reduction theory of mechanical systems with symmetry. In 1978 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki ( Eigenvalues ​​of the Laplacian plus a potential ).

He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. From 1971 to 1973 he was Sloan Fellow.

His doctoral counts Steven Zelditch

Writings

• With A. Cannas da Silva: Geometric models of Noncommutative algebras. Berkeley Mathematics Lecture Notes, AMS, 1999.
• With S. Bates: Lectures on the geometry of quantization. AMS 1997.
• With Jerrold Marsden, Anthony Tromba: Basic Multivariable Calculus. Freeman, 1983.
• With Marsden: Calculus 1,2,3. Springer 1985.
• With Marsden: Calculus Unlimited. Benjamin - Cummings in 1981.