Lawrence Craig Evans Receives 2004 AMS Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research

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January 8, 2004

PROVIDENCE, RI---Lawrence Craig Evans of the University of California, Berkeley, is receiving the 2004 Leroy P. Steele Prize for a Seminal Contribution to Research. He shares the prize with Nicolai V. Krylov of the University of Minnesota. Presented annually by the American Mathematical Society, the Steele Prize is one of the highest distinctions in mathematics. The prize will be awarded today at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Phoenix, Arizona.

Evans is being honored for his paper "Classical solutions of fully nonlinear convex, second order elliptic equations," Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics, 35 (1982), no. 3, 333-363.

Fully nonlinear elliptic equations are of interest in many subjects, including the theory of controlled diffusion processes and differential geometry. It is therefore of great interest to understand when these equations have classical solutions. The first results of any generality exhibiting classical solutions of the subclass of uniformly elliptic equations under suitable convexity conditions were found by Evans in the above-cited paper, and independently by Nicolai V. Krylov. The prize citation states: "[B]oth recipients have made a variety of distinguished contributions to the theory of nonlinear partial differential equations."

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