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John M. Lee

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John "Jack" Marshall Lee (born 2 September 1950) is an American mathematician, specializing in differential geometry.[1]

Lee graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in 1972, then became a systems programmer (at Texas Instruments from 1972 to 1974 and at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in 1974–1975) and a teacher at Wooster School in Danbury, Connecticut in 1975–1977. He continued his studies at Tufts University in 1977–1978. He received his doctorate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982 under the direction of Richard Melrose with dissertation Higher asymptotics of the complex Monge-Ampère equation and geometry of CR manifolds.[2][3] From 1982 to 1987 Lee was an assistant professor at Harvard University. At the University of Washington he became in 1987 an assistant professor, in 1989 an associate professor, and in 1996 a full professor.[2]

His research deals with, among other topics, the Yamabe problem, geometry of and analysis on CR manifolds, and differential geometry questions of general relativity (such as the constraint equations in the initial value problem of Einstein equations and existence of Einstein metrics on manifolds).[2]

In 2012 he received, jointly with David Jerison, the Stefan Bergman Prize from the American Mathematical Society.[4]

Lee created a mathematical software package named Ricci for performing tensor calculations in differential geometry. Ricci, named in honor of Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro and completed in 1992, consists of 7000 lines of Mathematica code. The software package is distributed via the Internet and was chosen for inclusion in the MathSource library of Mathematica packages supported by Wolfram Research.[2]

Selected publications

  • Riemannian Manifolds: An Introduction to Curvature, Springer-Verlag, Graduate Texts in Mathematics 1997
  • Introduction to Topological Manifolds, Springer-Verlag, Graduate Texts in Mathematics 2000, 2nd edition 2011[5]
  • Introduction to Smooth Manifolds, Springer-Verlag, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 2002, 2nd edition 2012[6]
  • Fredholm Operators and Einstein Metrics on Conformally Compact Manifolds. American Mathematical Soc. 2006[7] doi:10.1090/memo/0864
  • Axiomatic Geometry, AMS 2013[8]

References

  1. ^ "Research Papers, John M. Lee". Mathematics Department, U. of Washington.
  2. ^ a b c d "John M. Lee, C.V." Mathematics Department, U. of Washington.
  3. ^ John Marshall Lee at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ Jackson, Allyn (April 2013). "Jerison and Lee Awarded 2012 Bergman Prize" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 60 (4): 497–498.
  5. ^ Hunacek, Mark (31 March 2011). "Review of Introduction to topological manifolds, 2nd edition, by John M. Lee". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
  6. ^ Berg, Michael (11 October 2012). "Review of Introduction to smooth manifolds, 2nd edition, by John M. Lee". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
  7. ^ "Review of Fredholm operators and Einstein metrics on conformally compact manifolds by John M. Lee". European Mathematical Society. 8 June 2011.
  8. ^ Hunacek, Mark (30 May 2013). "Review of Axiomatic geometry by John M. Lee". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
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