name: Peter B. Gilkey
birth_date: 1946-02-27 00:00:00
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about: Peter Belden Gilkey (born February 27, 1946 in Utica, New York, is an American mathematician, working in differential geometry and global analysis.Gilkey graduated from Yale University with a master 's degree in 1967 and received a doctoral degree in 1972 from the Harvard University under the supervision of Louis Nirenberg (Curvature and the Eigenvalues of the Laplacian for Geometrical Elliptic Complexes).[2] From 1971 to 1972 he was an instructor in computer science at the New York University and from 1972 to 1974 was a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1974 to 1980 he was assistant professor at Princeton University and in 1981 he became associate professor and in 1985 professor at the University of Oregon. Peter Belden Gilkey (born February 27, 1946 in Utica, New York, is an American mathematician, working in differential geometry and global analysis.Gilkey graduated from Yale University with a master 's degree in 1967 and received a doctoral degree in 1972 from the Harvard University under the supervision of Louis Nirenberg (Curvature and the Eigenvalues of the Laplacian for Geometrical Elliptic Complexes).[2] From 1971 to 1972 he was an instructor in computer science at the New York University and from 1972 to 1974 was a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1974 to 1980 he was assistant professor at Princeton University and in 1981 he became associate professor and in 1985 professor at the University of Oregon. ...more