Richard Beals (mathematician)

Richard William Beals ( born May 28, 1938 in Erie, Pennsylvania) is an American mathematician who deals with partial differential equations and functional analysis.

Beals attended Yale University with a bachelor's degree in 1960, her Master's degree in 1962 and his doctorate at Felix Browder, 1964 ( Non- Local Boundary Value Problem for Elliptic Partial Differential Operators) 1965/66 he was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Chicago, where he was an Assistant Professor in 1966 and later became a professor. In 1977 he became a professor at Yale University.

Beals is concerned with (inverse ) scattering theory, integrable systems, pseudo-differential operators, complex and global analysis and transport theory. He has been married since 1962 and has three children.

He is not with the mathematician Professor at Rutgers University, R. Michael Beals (born 1954 ) to be confused.

Writings

• Analysis - an introduction, Cambridge University Press 2004
• With Peter Greiner: Calculus on Heisenberg Manifolds, Princeton University Press, 1988
• Advanced mathematical analysis; periodic functions and distributions, complex analysis, Laplace transform and applications, Springer Verlag 1973
• With Salah Baouendi, Linda Rothschild (Editor) Local Micro Analysis, American Mathematical Society 1984
• With Roderick Wong: Special functions: a graduate text, Cambridge University Press 2010
• Topics in Operator Theory, University of Chicago Press 1971
• Percy Deift, Carlos Tomei: Direct and inverse scattering on the line, American Mathematical Society 1988