Ben Andrews (mathematician)

Ben Andrews is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Mathematics and its Applications at the Australian National University. He is known for contributions to geometric analysis, with a majority of his work being in the field of extrinsic geometric flows. He received his Ph.D. from Australian National University in 1993, under the supervision of Gerhard Huisken. As of 2020, he has had eight Ph.D. students.

In 2002, he was an inviter speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians. In 2003, he received the Australian Mathematical Society Medal, along with Andrew Hassell, for distinguished research in the mathematical sciences. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Publications

Textbooks

• Ben Andrews and Christopher Hopper. The Ricci flow in Riemannian geometry. A complete proof of the differentiable 1/4-pinching sphere theorem. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 2011. Springer, Heidelberg, 2011. xviii+296 pp. ISBN 978-3-642-16285-5 doi:10.1007/978-3-642-16286-2
• Ben Andrews, Bennett Chow, Christine Guenther, and Mat Langford. Extrinsic geometric flows. Graduate Studies in Mathematics, vol. 206. American Mathematical Society, 2020. 790 pp. ISBN 978-1-4704-5596-5

Notable articles.

A94.

Ben Andrews. Contraction of convex hypersurfaces in Euclidean space. Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations 2 (1994), no. 2, 151–171. doi:10.1007/BF01191340

A98.

Ben Andrews. Evolving convex curves. Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations 7 (1998), no. 4, 315–371. doi:10.1007/s005260050111

A99.

Ben Andrews. Gauss curvature flow: the fate of the rolling stones. Invent. Math. 138 (1999), no. 1, 151–161. doi:10.1007/s002220050344