Michael G. Crandall

Michael Grain Crandall (born 29 November 1940, Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is an American mathematician, specializing in differential equations.

Michael G. Crandall
Born	29 November 1940 Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Nationality	American
Occupation	Mathematics Professor (Emeritus)

Mathematical career

In 1962 Crandall earned a baccalaureate in engineering physics from Berkeley, changed to mathematics, earning a master's in 1964 and a PhD in 1965 under Heinz Cordes in Berkeley, with a thesis that solved a problem in celestial mechanics posed by Carl Ludwig Siegel; the thesis title is Two families of plane solutions of the four body problem. In 1965 he was an instructor at Berkeley, in 1966 an assistant professor at Stanford University and from 1969 at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he was a professor from 1973 to 1976. From 1974 to 1984 he was also a professor at the Mathematics Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, from 1984 to 1990 as Hille-Professor of Mathematics. Since 1988 he has been a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Crandall was several times a visiting professor at the University of Paris, where he received an honorary doctorate in 1999.

Crandall works primarily on partial differential equations, e.g., with bifurcation theory, evolution equations, generation of semigroups of transformations on Banach spaces and the theory of Hamilton-Jacobi equations. With Pierre-Louis Lions he did research on the viscosity solutions of partial differential equations.

In 2000 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1999 he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize. In 1974 he was an Invited Lecturer (on "Semigroups of nonlinear equations and evolution equations") at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Vancouver. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Among his doctoral students is Lawrence C. Evans.

External links

• home page Crandall - UCSB Math. Dept.
• Steele Prize to Crandall, pdf-file, Notices AMS (76 kB)

Michael G. Crandall at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

Michael G. Crandall's opening hypothesis lecture at Montreal convention center international PDE conference in June, 2012