Laurence Chisholm Young
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L. Ch. Young (standing right) at the ICM 1932
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Born | Göttingen |
July 14, 1905
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Madison, Wisconsin |
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Alma mater | Cambridge University |
Doctoral students | Wendell Fleming |
Known for | Calculus of variations, real analysis |
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Laurence Chisholm Young (14 July 1905 – 24 December 2000) was a British mathematician known for his contributions to measure theory, the calculus of variations, optimal control theory, and potential theory. He was the son of William Henry Young and Grace Chisholm Young, both prominent mathematicians. He moved to the US in 1949 but never sought American citizenship.
The concept of Young measure is named after him: he also introduced the concept of the generalized curve[1] and a concept of generalized surface[2] which later evolved in the concept of varifold.[3][4] The Young integral also is named after him and has now been generalised in the theory of rough paths.[5]
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Life and academic career
Laurence Chisholm Young was born in Göttingen,[6] the fifth of the six children of William Henry Young and Grace Chisholm Young.[7] He held positions of Professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was also a chess grandmaster.[8]
Selected publications
Books
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Papers
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See also
Notes
- ↑ (Young 1937).
- ↑ (Young 1951).
- ↑ In his commemorative papers describing the research of Almgren, Brian White (1997, p.1452, footnote 1, 1998, p.682, footnote 1) writes that these are "essentially the same class of surfaces". He notes also that Young himself used the same term in a somewhat different context i.e. in (L. C. Young 1942, 1942a).
- ↑ See also the 2015 unpublished essay of his pupil Wendell Fleming.
- ↑ (Young 1936).
- ↑ (Turner, Rabinowitz & Rudin 2001).
- ↑ (Fleming & Wiegand 2004, p. 413).
- ↑ Grace Chisholm Young at Biographies of Women Mathematicians
References
Biographical and general references
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Scientific references
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.. One of the most complete monographs on the theory of Young measures, strongly oriented to applications in continuum mechanics of fluids.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.. A thorough scrutiny of Young measures and their various generalization is in Chapter 3 from the perspective of convex compactifications.
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- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.. An extended version of (White 1997) with a list of Almgren's publications.
External links
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- Obituary on University of Wisconsin web site Archived 27 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- Laurence Chisholm Young at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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- 20th-century British mathematicians
- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- Mathematical analysts
- Scientists from Göttingen
- 1905 births
- 2000 deaths
- Variational analysts
- British historians of mathematics
- Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada researchers