Jon T. Pitts
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Jon T. Pitts
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Jon T. Pitts (1948–2024) 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. The Almgren–Pitts min-max theory is named after his teacher and him.
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American mathematician
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2015-05-16T15:01:36Z
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2024-09-08T10:31:53Z
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