Raymond O. Wells, Jr.
Raymond O'Neil Wells, Jr. or Ronny, (born 1940 in Dallas) is an American mathematician, working in complex analysis in several variables as well as wavelets.
Wells received his BA from Rice University in 1962 and his Ph.D. in 1965 from New York University under the supervision of Lipman Bers (On the local holomorphic hull of a real submanifold in several complex variables).[1] He was Professor of Mathematics at Rice University, where he served as chairman of the Department of Mathematics. After becoming Professor Emeritus from Rice, he co-founded the Jacobs University Bremen. He was Professor of Mathematics and Vice-President of External Affairs.
He has written books on twistors, wavelets, and analysis on complex manifolds.
In 1970-71 and 1979-80, he was at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
From 1974 to 1975 he was a Guggenheim Fellow and received the Humboldt Senior Scientist Award. He was editor of the Transactions of the AMS. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[2]
Writings
- Differential Analysis on Complex Manifolds, Prentice–Hall 1973, 2nd Ed. Springer Verlag 1980, 3rd Ed. 2008
- With Howard L. Resnikoff Mathematics in Civilization, Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1973, 2nd Ed. Dover Publications 1984, 3rd Ed. Dover Publications 2015
- Complex Geometry in Mathematical Physics, Presses de L'Université Montréal 1982
- With Howard L. Resnikoff Wavelet Analysis – The Scalable Structure of Information, Springer Verlag 1998
- With Richard S. Ward Twistor Geometry and Field Theory, Cambridge University Press 1990
- Editor Several Complex Variables, two volumes, Symposium in Pure Mathematics, AMS 1977
- With Joseph A. Wolf, Poincaré series and automorphic cohomology on flag manifolds, Annals of Mathematics, volume 105, 1977, pp. 397–448
- With D. Burns, S. Shnider Deformations of strictly pseudoconvex domains, Inventiones Mathematicae, volume 46, 1978, pp. 237–253
References
- ↑ Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-11-25.