Burton Rodin
American mathematician
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Burton Rodin is an American mathematician known for his research in conformal mappings and Riemann surfaces. He is a professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego.
Burton Rodin | |
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| Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Known for | Thurston conjecture for circle packings |
| Awards | Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2012) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of California, San Diego |
| Thesis | Reproducing Formulas on Riemann Surfaces (1961) |
| Doctoral advisor | Leo Sario |
Education
Rodin received a Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1961. His thesis, titled Reproducing Formulas on Riemann Surfaces, was written under the supervision of Leo Sario.[1]
Career
He was a professor at the University of California, San Diego from 1970 to 1994. He was chair of the Mathematics Department from 1977 to 1981, and became professor emeritus in June 1994.[2]
Research
Rodin's 1968 work on extremal length of Riemann surfaces, together with an observation of Mikhail Katz, yielded the first systolic geometry inequality for surfaces independent of their genus.[3][4]
In 1980, Rodin and Stefan E. Warschawski solved the Visser–Ostrowski problem for derivatives of conformal mappings at the boundary.[5] In 1987 he proved the Thurston conjecture for circle packings, jointly with Dennis Sullivan.[6]
Awards and honors
In 2012, Rodin was elected fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[7]
Selected books
- B. Rodin and L. Sario, Principal Functions, D. Van Nostrand Co., Princeton, N.J., 1968, 347 pages.
- B. Rodin, Calculus and Analytic Geometry, Prentice-Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1970, 800 pages.