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Jon T. Pitts (1948–2024) was an American mathematician working on geometric analysis and variational calculus. He was a professor at Texas A&M University.

Pitts was born on 10 January 1948. Pitts obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1974 under the supervision of Frederick Almgren, Jr., with the thesis Every Compact Three-Dimensional Manifold Contains Two-Dimensional Minimal Submanifolds.

He received a Sloan Fellowship in 1981.

The Almgren–Pitts min-max theory is named after his teacher and him.

Pitts died on 30 May 2024.

Selected publications

• Existence and regularity of minimal surfaces on Riemannian manifolds. Vol. 27. Mathematical Notes. Princeton, NJ; University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo: Princeton University Press, 1981, pp. iv+330. ISBN 0-691-08290-1.
• "Applications of minimax to minimal surfaces and the topology of 3-manifolds"
• "Existence of minimal surfaces of bounded topological type in three-manifolds"

References

1. "Jon T. Pitts Obituary 2024". Hillier Funeral Home & Cremations. Retrieved 2024-06-08.
2. ^ https://paw.princeton.edu/memorial/jon-t-pitts-74
3. Jon T. Pitts at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. OCLC 39101117
5. "Past Fellows". Sloan.org. 2012-07-18. Archived from the original on 2015-07-13. Retrieved 2015-05-16.
6. Yashar Memarian (2013). "A Note on the Geometry of Positively-Curved Riemannian Manifolds". arXiv:1312.0792 .

External links

• Home page of Jon T. Pitts at the Texas A&M University
• Tobias Colding & Camillo De Lellis: "The min-max construction of minimal surfaces"

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