Peter Wilcox Jones (born 1952) is a mathematician at
Yale University
Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...
, known for his work in
harmonic analysis and
fractal geometry
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. He received his Ph.D. at the
University of California, Los Angeles
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in 1978, under the supervision of
John B. Garnett. He received the
Salem Prize in 1981. He is an elected member of the
U.S. National Academy of Sciences (2008), the
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2008), and the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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(1998).
He is not related to the mathematician
Vaughan Jones.
References
External links
Faculty pageat Yale
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1952 births
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Yale University faculty
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
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