Mathematician:Jesse Douglas

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Mathematician

American mathematician best known for his general solution to Plateau's Problem.


Fields Medal

Jesse Douglas was awarded a Fields Medal in $\text {1936}$ at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Oslo:

Did important work on the Plateau problem which is concerned with finding minimal surfaces connecting and determined by some fixed boundary.


Nationality

American


History

  • Born: 3 July 1897 New York City, New York, United States
  • Died: 7 September 1965 in New York City, New York, United States


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