Themistocles M. Rassias

Themistocles M. Rassias
Rassias around 2005
Born April 2, 1951 (age 66)
Pellana, Peloponnese, Greece
Residence Athens, Greece
Nationality Greek
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.)
Known for Hyers–Ulam–Rassias stability[1][2]
Aleksandrov–Rassias problem[3]
Awards Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Alba Iulia, Romania (2008)

Honorary Doctorate, University of Nis,[4] Serbia (2010)

Doctor Honoris Causa, Valahia University of Targoviste, Romania (2016)
Website http://www.math.ntua.gr/~trassias/
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions National Technical University of Athens
Influences Stephen Smale,
Stanislaw Ulam

Themistocles M. Rassias (Greek: Θεμιστοκλής Μ. Ρασσιάς; born April 2, 1951) is a Greek mathematician, and a Professor at the National Technical University of Athens (Eθνικό Μετσόβιο Πολυτεχνείο), Greece. He has published more than 300 papers, 10 research books and 45 edited volumes in research Mathematics as well as 4 textbooks in Mathematics (in Greek) for university students. His research work has received more than 13,000 citations according to Google Scholar[5] and more than 4,500 citations according to MathSciNet[6]. He serves as a member of the Editorial Board of several international mathematical journals.

Education

He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley in June 1976. Professor Stephen Smale and Professor Shiing-Shen Chern have been his thesis and academic advisors, respectively.

Research

His work extends over several fields of Mathematical Analysis. It includes Nonlinear Functional Analysis, Functional Equations, Approximation Theory, Analysis on Manifolds, Calculus of Variations, Inequalities, Metric Geometry and their Applications.

He has contributed a number of results in the stability of minimal submanifolds, in the solution of Ulam's Problem for approximate homomorphisms in Banach spaces, in the theory of isometric mappings in metric spaces and in Complex analysis (Poincaré's inequality and harmonic mappings).

Terminology

(ii) The Aleksandrov–Rassias problem[3] for isometric mappings.[7]

Awards and honors

He has received a number of honors and awards including:

Works

• Th. M. Rassias, On the stability of the linear mapping in Banach spaces, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 72(1978), 297-300. [Translated in Chinese and published in: Mathematical Advance in Translation, Chinese Academy of Sciences 4 (2009), 382-384.]
• Th. M. Rassias, New characterizations of inner product spaces, Bulletin des Sciences Mathematiques, 108 (1984), 95-99.
• Th. M. Rassias, On the stability of functional equations and a problem of Ulam, Acta Applicandae Mathematicae 62(1) (2000), 23-130.
• Th. M. Rassias, Major trends in Mathematics, Newsletter European Math. Soc. 62 (2006), 13-14. Translated in Chinese and published in:Mathematical Advance in Translation, Chinese Academy of Sciences 2 (2008), 172-174.
• Th. M. Rassias and J. Brzdek, Functional Equations in Mathematical Analysis, Springer, New York, 2012.
• Th. M. Rassias and J. Simsa, Finite Sums Decompositions in Mathematical Analysis, John Wiley & Sons Ltd. (Wiley-Interscience Series in Pure and Applied Mathematics), Chichester, New York, Brisbane, Toronto, Singapore, 1995.

Notes

1. ^ Jung, Soon-Mo (2011). Hyers–Ulam–Rassias Stability of Functional Equations in Nonlinear Analysis. New York, USA: Springer. p. 377. ISBN 978-1-4419-9636-7.
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5. ^ Google Scholar citations of Th.M. Rassias
6. ^ MathSciNet Mathematical Reviews profile of Th.M. Rassias
7. ^ An interview with Themistocles M. Rassias