Jean Taylor

Jean Ellen Taylor ( born September 17, 1944 in San Mateo, California) is an American mathematician who deals with the calculus of variations, differential geometry and minimal surfaces.

Life and work

Taylor first studied chemistry at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts ( BA 1966) and at the University of California, Berkeley ( master's degree, 1968), but where they have moved to mathematics ( after they heard lectures by Shiing - Shen Chern ). She followed ( the political unrest in Berkeley in the 1968 times evasive ) her then-husband, the mathematician John Guckenheimer, at the University of Warwick in England, where in 1970 she made ​​her master's degree in mathematics. In the fall of 1970, she went to Princeton University, where she received his doctorate in 1973 at Frederick Almgren ( Regularity of the singular set of 2 - dimensional flat chains modulo 3 Minimizing area in, Inventiones Mathematicae, Bd.22, 1973, p 119-159 ). Then she was Instructor at MIT. From 1973, she was first an assistant professor and from 1982 professor at Rutgers University. Since 2002 she has been a professor emeritus. In the same year she went to the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University.

Taylor is known for her work in the 1970s, more than minimal problems from bubble - type ( in a mathematical formulation of Almgren, which is the experimental bubble closer than hitherto of mathematicians preferably studied Plateau problem) and also studied mathematical models of crystal growth where she studied as contacts with the experiment.

Taylor is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1995 to 1997 she was Vice President of the American Mathematical Society. In 2003, she was Noether Lecturer. In 2001 she was made an honorary Doctor of Mount Holyoke College. 1999 to 2001 she was president of the Association of Woman Mathematicians. She is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

She was married since 1973 to the mathematician Frederick Almgren, who died in 1997. With him she has a daughter. In her spare time she is Felskletterin and mountain hiker and is involved in the consortium for the preservation of "Black Rock Forest " 50 miles north of New York City, which includes a number of schools and universities. She is married to William T. Golden.

Writings

  • With Frederick Almgren: The Geometry of Soap Films and Soap Bubbles, Scientific American, July 1976
  • The structure of singularities in area -related variational problems with constraints, Bulletin AMS, Bd.81, 1975, p 1093
  • Some mathematical challenges in materials science, Bulletin AMS, Vol 40, 2003, p 69
Frederick J. Almgren, Jr. Plateau's problem
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