Richard Schoen(1950)

Mathematics

Richard Melvin Schoen is an American mathematician known for his work in differential geometry and geometric analysis. He is best known for the resolution of the Yamabe problem in 1984 and his works on harmonic maps.

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Major Awards
144
Publications
16,669
Citations
51
h-index
81
i10-index
115.8
Avg Citations/Paper

Education

Stanford University
University of Dayton

Doctoral Advisors

Shing-Tung YauLeon SimonWilliam Minicozzi IIAilana FraserJosé F. EscobarHubert BrayAndré NevesMichael EichmairChikako MeseDaniel PollackAlessandro CarlottoMartin Man-Chun LiMario Joseph MicallefWilliam Charles JagyGuojun LiaoJaigyoung ChoeNathan SmaleNikolaos KapouleasRobert Barnard KusnerTom Yau-Heng WanYng-Ing LeeSumio YamadaYing ShenDong ZhangFernando Armin SchwartzJustin CorvinoAdrian Adam Thomas ButscherJingyi ChenDan Archibald LeeXiaodong WangPengzi MiaoYu YanXiaofeng SunMichel GruenebergWeiyang QiuChad Lawrence GroftZachary CohnLan-Hsuan HuangFrederick Tsz-Ho FongXin ZhouChristos MantoulidisCasey Lynn KelleherJesse MadnickDa Rong ChengAlexander Mramor

Career Timeline

University of California, Berkeley?–present
Stanford University?–present

Academy Memberships

National Academy of Sciences (US)

Top Publications

Stability and largeness properties of minimal surfaces in higher codimension
Journal of the European Mathematical Society20250 citations

Data Sources

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