Nicholas William Hanges was a mathematician and professor at

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of the

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, known for his work in

partial differential equations In mathematics, a partial differential equation (PDE) is an equation which involves a multivariable function and one or more of its partial derivatives. The function is often thought of as an "unknown" that solves the equation, similar to how ...

and the theory of

several complex variables The theory of functions of several complex variables is the branch of mathematics dealing with functions defined on the complex coordinate space \mathbb C^n, that is, -tuples of complex numbers. The name of the field dealing with the properties ...

Education and career

Hanges earned his B.S degree in mathematics from the New York City College in 1970. He received his M.A. (1975) and Ph.D. (1976) from

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, under the supervision of M. Salah Baouendi. He was a visiting scholar at the

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in 1977-1978, 1980-1981, 1991-1992 and again in 1994. In 1983, Hanges joined the faculty of Lehman College of the City University of New York as a Professor of Mathematics from the

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. From 2017 he served as Chairman of the Mathematics Department.

Awards and honors

*In 1982, Hanges received an

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars". This program is one of the oldest of its kind in the United States. ...

Selected publications

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References

External links

Lehman College Faculty bios
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