Howard Masur
American mathematician
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Howard Alan Masur is an American mathematician who works on topology, geometry, and combinatorial group theory.[1][2]
Howard Alan Masur | |
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Howard Masur in Oberwolfach, 2014 | |
| Citizenship | American |
| Education | University of Minnesota |
| Awards | Fellow of Amer. Math. Soc. |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | topology, geometry, and combinatorial group theory |
| Thesis | The Curvature of Teichmuller Space (1974) |
| Doctoral advisor | Albert Marden |
| Doctoral students | Jing Tao |
Biography
Masur was an invited speaker at the 1994 International Congress of Mathematicians in Zürich.[3] and is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[4]
Along with Yair Minsky, Masur is one of the pioneers of the study of curve complex geometry.[5] He also contributed to the understanding of the convergence of geodesic rays in Teichmüller theory.[6]
Masur was a Ph.D. student of Albert Marden at the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis.[7]
Awards and recognitions
The Hubbard–Masur theorem is named after Masur and John H. Hubbard.[8] In 2009, a conference of mathematicians honored Masur's 60th birthday in France.[9]
Selected papers
- Howard Masur (1982). "Interval exchange transformations and measured foliations". Annals of Mathematics. 115 (1): 169–200. doi:10.2307/1971341. JSTOR 1971341.
- Howard Masur (1975). "On a class of geodesics in Teichmuller space". Annals of Mathematics. 102 (2): 205–221. doi:10.2307/1971031. JSTOR 1971031.
