Victor Guillemin
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Victor William Guillemin (born 1937, Boston) is a mathematician working in the field of symplectic geometry, who has also made contributions to the fields of microlocal analysis, spectral theory, and mathematical physics. He has supervised over 40 doctoral students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is a tenured Professor in the Department of Mathematics.
Professional career
Guillemin received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard University in 1962, after earlier completing his B. A. at Harvard in 1959, as well as an M. A. at the University of Chicago in 1960. His thesis, entitled Theory of Finite G-Structures, was written under the direction of Shlomo Sternberg.
He is the author or co-author of numerous books and monographs, including a widely used textbook on differential topology, written jointly with Alan Pollack.
Awards and honors
He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1985.[1] In 2003, he was awarded the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement by the American Mathematical Society.[2] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[3]
Selected publications
- Guillemin, Victor and Pollack, Alan (1974). Differential topology. New York, NY: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-212605-2.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Golubitsky, Martin and Guillemin, Victor (1974). Stable mappings and their singularities. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-0-387-90073-5.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Guillemin, Victor and Sternberg, Shlomo (1977). Geometric asymptotics. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society. ISBN 0-8218-1514-8.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link); reprinted in 1990 as an on-line book - Guillemin, V.: "The Radon transform on Zoll surfaces". Advances in Mathematics 22 (1976), 85–119.
- Guillemin, Victor and Sternberg, Shlomo (1986). Symplectic techniques in physics. Cambridge U. Press. ISBN 0-521-24866-3; xi+468 p.
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See also
References
- ^ National Academy of Sciences, Victor Guillemin, Mathematics, 1985
- ^ American Mathematical Society, Leroy P. Steele Prizes, January 2003
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-19.
- ^ Duistermaat, J. J. (1988). "Review: Symplectic techniques in physics, by Victor Guillemin and Shlomo Sternberg" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 18 (1): 97–100. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1988-15620-0.
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External links
- Victor Guillemin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Victor Guillemin's personal web page
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