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Harold R Parks

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Name
  
Harold Parks

Residence
  
Oregon, United States


Institutions
  
Oregon State University

Known for
  
Geometric measure theory

Alma mater
  
Dartmouth College, Princeton University

Books
  
The Implicit Function Theorem, Geometric Integration Theory, Intl Stdt Ed‑a Mathemat, Explicit Determination of Area M

Doctoral advisor
  
Frederick J. Almgren, Jr.

Harold Raymond Parks (born May 22, 1949) is an American mathematician and is a professor emeritus of mathematics at Oregon State University.

Parks obtained his Ph.D. in 1974 from Princeton University, under the supervision of Frederick J. Almgren, Jr. In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. His Doctoral Students include Zachary Gelbaum and Dean C. Wills.

He has developed and implemented a computational technique for computing parametric area minimizing surfaces. He derived an existence and regularity theory for a class of constrained variational problems. Parks has discovered, and characterized, a type of minimal surface with surprising properties, defined in terms of the Jacobi elliptic functions.

References

Harold R. Parks Wikipedia