Harold Raymond Parks (born May 22, 1949) is an American mathematician and is a professor emeritus of mathematics at Oregon State University. Parks obtained his Ph.D. in 1974 from Princeton University, under the supervision of

Frederick J. Almgren, Jr. Frederick Justin Almgren Jr. (July 3, 1933 – February 5, 1997) was an American mathematician working in geometric measure theory. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama. Almgren received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1974. Between 1963 and 1992 he wa ...

In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2013-08-31. He has developed and implemented a computational technique for computing parametric area minimizing surfaces. He derived an existence and regularity theory for a class of constrained variational problems. Parks has discovered, and characterized, a type of minimal surface with surprising properties, defined in terms of the Jacobi elliptic functions.

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