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Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. I (Beijing, 2002)
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in 1977, as the top student in the sciences at Yale. He earned his Ph.D. from
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White, Brian (2002), "Evolution of curves and surfaces by mean curvature",
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invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians
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List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
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differential geometry
geometric measure theory
Stanford University
double bubble conjecture
dihedral angles
surface of revolution
Yale University
Princeton University
minimal surfaces
Frederick J. Almgren, Jr.
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University
Sloan Research Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowship
invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians
differential geometry
curve-shortening flow
mean curvature flow
fellows
American Mathematical Society
"Brian White"
Morgan, Frank
MR
2108996
American Mathematical Monthly
doi
10.2307/2695380
MR
1834699

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