Harold Raymond Parks | |
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| Alma mater | Dartmouth College, Princeton University |
| Known for | Geometric measure theory |
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| Institutions | Oregon State University |
| Doctoral advisor | Frederick J. Almgren, Jr. |
Harold Raymond Parks (born May 22, 1949) is an American mathematician and is a professor emeritus of mathematics at Oregon State University.[1]
Parks obtained his Ph.D. in 1974 from Princeton University, under the supervision of Frederick J. Almgren, Jr.[2] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[3]
He has developed and implemented a computational technique for computing parametric area minimizing surfaces. He derived an existence and regularity theory for a class of constrained variational problems. Parks has discovered, and characterized, a type of minimal surface with surprising properties, defined in terms of the Jacobi elliptic functions.
- ^ Faculty page, Oregon State University
- ^ Harold R. Parks at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-08-31.