Michael T. Anderson (born November 18, 1950, in

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)''Who's Who in America'' 2008 Ed., Vol. 1, p. 105 is an American mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the

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. His research concerns

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including

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and

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s. After doing his undergraduate studies at the

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, Anderson received his Ph.D. from the

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in 1981 under the supervision of H. Blaine Lawson. In 2012, Anderson became a

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of the

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.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2014-12-20.

Major publications

* Anderson, Michael T.; Schoen, Richard. ''Positive harmonic functions on complete manifolds of negative curvature.'' Ann. of Math. (2) 121 (1985), no. 3, 429–461. * Anderson, Michael T. ''Ricci curvature bounds and Einstein metrics on compact manifolds.'' J. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1989), no. 3, 455–490. * Anderson, Michael T. ''Convergence and rigidity of manifolds under Ricci curvature bounds.'' Invent. Math. 102 (1990), no. 2, 429–445.

References

1950 births Living people Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Stony Brook University faculty University of California, Santa Barbara alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians {{US-mathematician-stub