Raymond O. Wells, Jr.

Raymond O'Neil Wells Junior, called Ronny, ( born 1940 in Dallas ) is an American mathematician who deals with complex analysis in several variables and with wavelets.

Wells in 1965 his doctorate from New York University with Lipman Bers ( On the local holomorphic hull of a real submanifold in several complex variables). He was professor of mathematics at Rice University. He was Chairman of the Faculty of Mathematics there. After his retirement, he was co-founder of the Jacobs University Bremen. He was Professor of Mathematics and Vice-President ( External Affairs ).

He has written books on twistors, wavelets and analysis on complex manifolds.

1970/71 and 1979/80 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study.

1974/75 he was a Guggenheim Fellow and received the Humboldt Research Award.

He was editor of the Transactions of the AMS and he is a Fellow of the AMS.

Writings

• Differential Analysis on Complex Manifolds, Prentice- Hall, 1973, 2nd edition Springer Verlag 1980, 3rd edition, Springer Verlag 2008
• Howard L. Resnikoff Mathematics in Civilization, Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1973, 2nd edition Dover Publications 1984 German translation: Mathematics in the change of cultures, Vieweg 1983