Geometric analysis and computer graphics : proceedings of a workshop held May 23-25,
1988 / ed. by P. Concus, R. Finn, D. A. Hoffman, 1991
Information trouvée : En poste au Department of Mathematics, Stanford university, Stanford, Californie,
USA (en 1991)
LCNA, 1993-03
Wikipedia, 2022-08-29
Information trouvée : Robert Samuel Finn (August 8, 1922 – August 16, 2022) was an American mathematician.
He received in 1951 his PhD from Syracuse University under Abe Gelbart with the thesis
On some properties of the solution of a class of non-linear partial differential equations.As
a postdoc he was in 1953 at the Institute for Advanced Study and in 1953/54 at the
Institute for Hydrodynamics at the University of Maryland. He became in 1954 an assistant
professor at the University of Southern California and in 1956 an associate professor
at California Institute of Technology. Beginning in 1959 he was a professor at Stanford
University. He was an exchange scientist in 1978 at the Soviet Academy of Sciences
and in 1987 at the Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR. In 1994 he received an honorary
doctorate from the University of Leipzig. For the academic years 1958/59 and 1965/66
he held Guggenheim Fellowships.