Michael Loss

Michael Loss (born 1954)[1] is a mathematician and mathematical physicist who works as a professor of mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology.[2]

Loss obtained his Ph.D. in 1982 from the ETH Zurich, with a dissertation on the three-body problem jointly supervised by Walter Hunziker and Israel Michael Sigal.[3]

He coauthors the graduate textbook Analysis (Graduate Studies in Mathematics 14. American Mathematical Society, 1997; 2nd ed., 2001) with Elliott H. Lieb.[4]

In 2012, he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society,[5] and was elected as a Foreign Corresponding Member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences.[6] He is one of the 2015 winners of the Humboldt Prize.[7]

  1. ^ Birthdate from Library of Congress authority control data
  2. ^ Faculty profile Archived 2016-09-19 at the Wayback Machine, Georgia Tech., retrieved 2015-01-26.
  3. ^ Michael Loss at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  4. ^ Review of Analysis by J. Horváth (1998), MR1415616; for the 2nd edition, see MR1817225.
  5. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-01-26.
  6. ^ Michael Loss elected to Chilean Academy of Sciences Archived 2015-10-11 at the Wayback Machine, Georgia Tech. School of Mathematics, January 18, 2012, retrieved 2015-01-26.
  7. ^ Michael Loss Receives the Humboldt Research Award, Georgia Tech. School of Mathematics, December 10, 2014, retrieved 2015-01-26.