Paying Tribute to James Eells and Joseph H. Sampson: In Commemoration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of Their Pioneering Work on Harmonic Maps

Authors

Yuan-Jen Chiang, University of Mary WashingtonFollow
Andrea Ratto

Document Type

Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1090/noti1225

Journal Title

Notices of the AMS

Publication Date

2015

Abstract

As a prominent professor and an inventive mathematician, Eells’s mathematical influence in the field of harmonic maps became internationally recognized and widespread. According to the Mathematics Genealogy Project, he advised thirty-eight PhDs, who, in turn, produced 198 descendants.

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Recommended Citation

Chiang, Yuan-Jen, and Andrea Ratto. “Paying Tribute to James Eells and Joseph H. Sampson: In Commemoration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of Their Pioneering Work on Harmonic Maps.” Notices of the AMS 62, no. 4 (2015): 388–93.