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 |
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.
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]
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]
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]
In 2012, Rodin was elected fellow of the American Mathematical Society. [7]