Jon T. Pitts Explained
Jon T. Pitts (1948–2024)[1] was an American mathematician working on geometric analysis and variational calculus. He was a professor at Texas A&M University.
Pitts obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1974 under the supervision of Frederick Almgren, Jr., with the thesis Every Compact Three-Dimensional Manifold Contains Two-Dimensional Minimal Submanifolds.
He received a Sloan Fellowship in 1981.[2]
The Almgren–Pitts min-max theory is named after his teacher and him.[3]
Selected publications
- "Existence and regularity of minimal surfaces on Riemannian manifolds"
- "Applications of minimax to minimal surfaces and the topology of 3-manifolds"
- "Existence of minimal surfaces of bounded topological type in three-manifolds"
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Jon T. Pitts Obituary 2024 . 2024-06-08 . Hillier Funeral Home & Cremations . en.
- Web site: Past Fellows . Sloan.org . 2012-07-18 . 2015-05-16.
- 1312.0792. A Note on the Geometry of Positively-Curved Riemannian Manifolds . Yashar Memarian . math.MG . 2013 .