Peter Jones (mathematician)

Peter Wilcox Jones ( born 1952 ) is an American mathematician who deals with analysis.

Jones received his doctorate in 1978 at the University of California, Los Angeles with John Brady Garnett ( Constructions with functions of bounded mean oscillation ). After that, he was a lecturer at the University of Chicago, where in 1985 he received a full professorship. He is James E. English Professor of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at Yale University, where he is a professor since 1985. He has been a visiting scientist at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay and two years Assistant Director at the Mittag-Leffler Institute.

Jones deals with harmonic analysis. With Thomas Wolff in 1988 he proved a conjecture about the Hausdorff dimension of harmonic measure in the plane. In applied mathematics he also studied search engine strategies and data preparation for biology and medicine.

In 1990, he solved the problem of continuous traveling salesman.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 1981 he received the Salem Prize. He was made an honorary doctor of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 1993. Jones was also Sloan Fellow. In 2010 he gave a plenary lecture at the ICM in Hyderabad (self Functions and coordinate systems on manifolds ).

Since 1999 he is a director of the advisory board of the IPAM Institute of the National Science Foundation.