Bôcher Memorial Prize (1959) Crafoord Prize (1982) Steele Prize (1994, 2014) National Medal of Science (1995) Chern Medal (2010) Abel Prize in Mathematics (2015)
Scientific career
Fields
Mathematics
Institutions
New York University
Thesis
The determination of a closed convex surface having given line elements (1949)
Doctoral advisor
James Stoker
Doctoral students
Walter Craig
Peter B. Gilkey
Djairo Guedes de Figueiredo
Sergiu Klainerman
YanYan Li
Chang-Shou Lin
Wei-Ming Ni
Martin Schechter
Gabriella Tarantello
Notes
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Louis Nirenberg (February 28, 1925 – January 26, 2020) was a Canadian-American mathematician, considered one of the most outstanding mathematicians of the 20th century.[2][3]
Nearly all of his work was in the field of partial differential equations. Many of his contributions are now regarded as fundamental to the field, such as his strong maximum principle for second-order parabolic partial differential equations and the Newlander–Nirenberg theorem in complex geometry. He is regarded as a foundational figure in the field of geometric analysis, with many of his works being closely related to the study of complex analysis and differential geometry.[4]
^Lawson, H. Blaine Jr. (April 21, 2012). "Reflections on the Early Mathematical Life of Bob Osserman" (PDF).
^Allyn Jackson (March 2002). "Interview with Louis Nirenberg" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 49 (4): 441–449. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 3, 2016. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
^Caffarelli, Luis A.; Li, YanYan. Preface [Dedicated to Louis Nirenberg on the occasion of his 85th birthday. Part I]. Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. 28 (2010), no. 2, i–ii. doi:10.3934/dcds.2010.28.2i
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called John–Nirenberg space, after Fritz John and LouisNirenberg who introduced and studied it for the first time. According to Nirenberg (1985, p. 703...
Nirenberg is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: David Nirenberg, American historian LouisNirenberg (1925–2020), Canadian-born Canadian-American...
of Science (Kurt O. Friedrichs, Peter Lax, Cathleen Synge Morawetz, LouisNirenberg, Charles S. Peskin, S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan), one (Mikhail Gromov)...
Science and Letters. Retrieved 21 July 2022. "2015: John F. Nash and LouisNirenberg". The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Retrieved 21 July 2022...
prestige in the geosciences. The inaugural laureates, Vladimir Arnold and LouisNirenberg, were cited by the Academy for their work in the field of non-linear...
Enrico Bombieri, Charles Fefferman, Samuel Karlin, David Kazhdan, LouisNirenberg, Terence Tao, Wendelin Werner, and Don Zagier. Anderson, J. M. (1988)...
the original on 2010-08-25. Retrieved Aug 22, 2010. "Chern Medal – LouisNirenberg". ICM 2010. August 19, 2010. Archived from the original on July 24...
isometric embeddings of Riemannian manifolds into Euclidean space, work by LouisNirenberg on the Minkowski problem and the Weyl problem, and work by Aleksandr...
Morawetz, professor at Courant Charles Newman, professor at Courant LouisNirenberg, professor at Courant Charles Peskin, professor at Courant K. R. Sreenivasan...
Chang (Princeton University), Ron Donagi (University of Pennsylvania), LouisNirenberg (CIMS - NYU, 1925–2020).[citation needed] List of mathematics awards...
in 1978. His thesis, written under the direction of Fritz John and LouisNirenberg, was titled Global Existence for Nonlinear Wave Equations. From 1978...
commentaries of David Isaacson, Fritz John, Tosio Kato, Peter Lax, LouisNirenberg, Wolfgag Wasow, Harold Weitzner. Giusti, Enrico (1984), Minimal surfaces...
with many leading mathematicians of his time, such as LouisNirenberg, John Nash, Jacques-Louis Lions and Renato Caccioppoli. He is largely responsible...
(died 1985), American computer scientist and educator. February 28 – LouisNirenberg (died 2020), Canadian-born American mathematician. March 1 – Solomon...
Cédric Villani; and Abel Prize winners S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan and LouisNirenberg. Named in honor of mathematics professor Richard Fleming. Philip A...
Navier–Stokes equations; it was obtained in 1982 in collaboration with LouisNirenberg and Robert V. Kohn. In 1991 he was elected to the U.S. National Academy...
Marshall Warren Nirenberg (April 10, 1927 – January 15, 2010) was an American biochemist and geneticist. He shared a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...
shaping modern analysis in a significant way. Based on this example, LouisNirenberg, Lars Hörmander and others have outlined some important changes to...
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