Griffith Conrad Evans

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Born: 11 May 1887 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Died: 8 Dec 1973 in Berkeley, California, USA

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His work dealt with functional analysis, integral equations and the problem of minimal surfaces, the Plateau Problem. It was built on that of Lebesgue, Volterra, Fréchet and Poincaré. Evans also wrote on mathematical economics.

References (3 books/articles)

References elsewhere in this archive:

G C Evans was the President of the American Mathematical Society in 1939 - 1940. You can see a history of the AMS and a list of AMS presidents.
He was the American Mathematical Society Colloquium Lecturer in 1916. You can see a history of the AMS Colloquium and a list of the lecturers.