Jesse Douglas
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jesse Douglas was an American mathematician and Fields Medalist known for his general solution to Plateau's problem. Life and career He was born to a Jewish family in New York City, the son of Sarah and Louis Douglas. He attended City College of New York as an undergraduate, graduating with honors in Mathematics in 1916. He then moved to Columbia University as a graduate student, obtaining a PhD in mathematics in 1920.
Jesse Douglas's Published Works
Published Works
- Solution of the problem of Plateau (1931) (418)
- Solution of the Inverse Problem of the Calculus of Variations. (1939) (303)
- The General Geometry of Paths (151)
- Minimal Surfaces of Higher Topological Structure (1939) (52)
- Minimal Surfaces of Higher Topological Structure. (1938) (46)
- The Problem of Plateau for Two Contours (1931) (36)
- On The Invariants of Finite Abelian Groups. (1951) (35)
- One-sided minimal surfaces with a given boundary (1932) (26)
- Geometry of Polygons in the Complex Plane (1940) (25)
- A Method of Numerical Solution of the Problem of Plateau (24)
- On Finite Groups With Two Independent Generators: I. (1951) (19)
- On linear polygon transformations (1940) (19)
- The problem of Plateau (1933) (17)
- Systems ofK-dimensional manifolds in anN-dimensional space (1931) (17)
- On Finite Groups with Two Independent Generators: II. (1951) (12)
- ON THE SUPERSOLVABILITY OF BICYCLIC GROUPS. (1961) (12)
- Some New Results in the Problem of Plateau (1936) (11)
- The Mapping Theorem of Koebe and the Problem of Plateau (1931) (11)
- The Most General Form of the Problem of Plateau (1939) (10)
- Theorems in the Inverse Problem in the Calculus of Variations. (1940) (9)
- The Most General Form of the Problem of Plateau. (1938) (9)
- Minimal Surfaces of General Topological Structure with Any Finite Number of Assigned Boundaries (1936) (8)
- Green's Function and the Problem of Plateau. (1938) (5)
- The Least Area Property of the Minimal Surface Determined by an Arbitrary Jordan Contour. (1931) (5)
- A Step-Polygon of a Denumerable Infinity of Sides Which Bounds No Finite Area. (1933) (4)
- On Finite Groups With Two Independent Generators: III. Exponential Substitutions. (1951) (4)
- On Finite Groups with Two Independent Generators: IV. Conjugate Substitutions. (1951) (4)
- The higher topological form of Plateau's problem (1939) (3)
- Green's Function and the Problem of Plateau (1939) (3)
- Remarks on Riemann's Doctoral Dissertation. (1938) (3)
- The analytic prolongation of a minimal surface over a rectilinear segment of its boundary (1939) (2)
- A Jordan Space Curve Which Bounds No Finite Simply Connected Area. (1933) (2)
- Crescent-Shaped Minimal Surfaces. (1933) (2)
- An Analytic Closed Space Curve Which Bounds No Orientable Surface of Finite Area. (1933) (2)
- Extremals and transversality of the general calculus of variations problem of the first order in space (1927) (2)
- Seven Theorems in the Problem of Plateau. (1932) (1)
- A Jordan Space Curve No Arc of Which Can Form Part of a Contour Which Bounds a Finite Area (1934) (1)
- On the Basis Theorem for Finite Abelian Groups (Third Note). (1951) (1)
- On the Existence of a Basis for Every Finite Abelian Group. (1951) (1)
- On the Basis Theorem for Finite Abelian Groups: IV. (1953) (1)
- On The Basis Theorem for Finite Abelian Groups (Second Note). (1951) (1)
- A criterion for the conformal equivalence of a Riemann space to a Euclidean space (1925) (1)
- On certain two-point properties of general families of curves (1921) (0)
- A Jordan Space Curve Having the Infinite Area Property at Each of Its Points. (1938) (0)
- Determination of all systems of $\infty ^4$ curves in space in which the sum of the angles of every triangle is two right angles (1923) (0)
- A characteristic property of minimal surfaces (1926) (0)
- The Analysis Situs of the Plane When the Directed Line is Taken as Element (1928) (0)
- A new special form of the linear element of a surface (1940) (0)
- Normal congruences and quadruply infinite systems of curves in space (0)
- The transversality relative to a surface of $\int {F\left( {x,y,z,y',z'} \right)dx = {\text{Minimum}}}$ (1926) (0)
- The Analytic Prolongation of a Minimal Surface across a Straight Line. (1939) (0)
- Contact Transformations of Three-Space Which Convert a System of Paths into a System of Paths. (1927) (0)
- Corrections to the Paper “The Problem of Plateau for Two Contours” (1932) (0)
- A converse theorem concerning the diametral locus of an algebraic curve (1940) (0)
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