Evans

Griffith Conrad Evans

Born: 11 May 1887 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Died: 8 Dec 1973 in Berkeley, California, USA

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Evans studied in Rome with Volterra and at Berlin with Planck. He was appointed to Rice and moved to Berkeley in 1934.

His work dealt with functional analysis, integral equations and the problem of minimal surfaces, the Plateau Problem. It was built on that of Lebesgue, Volterra, Fréchet and Poincaré. Evans also wrote on mathematical economics.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. C B Morrey, Griffith Conrad Evans, Biographical Memoirs. National Academy of Science 54 (1983), 127-155. 
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