Michael Eaton Gage is a mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the
University of Rochester. He is known for his work on the
curve-shortening flow, and in particular for the Gage–Hamilton–Grayson theorem, proved by Gage with
Richard S. Hamilton and Matthew Grayson, which describes the behavior of any
smoothJordan curve under the curve-shortening flow.[1][2][3] He is also one of the original developers of the
WeBWorK online homework delivery system.[4]
Gage did his undergraduate studies at
Antioch College,[5] and completed his Ph.D. in mathematics at
Stanford University in 1978, under the supervision of
Robert Osserman.[6]
He has worked as a systems programmer for
Intel,[7] and joined the Rochester faculty in 1984.[5]
^Ewing, John (1999), Towards Excellence: Leading a Doctoral Mathematics Department in the 21st Century, American Mathematical Society Task Force on Excellence, p. 148,
ISBN9780821820339.