Charles C. Conley

Charles Cameron Conley (26 September 1933 – 20 November 1984) was an American mathematician who worked on dynamical systems.^[1]

Conley earned his Ph.D. at the MIT in 1962 under the supervision of Jürgen Moser.^[2] He taught at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

The Conley index theory and the Conley–Zehnder theorem are named after him.

Works

• Isolated invariant sets and the Morse index. CBMS Regional Conference Series in Mathematics, 38. American Mathematical Society, Providence, R.I., 1978. ISBN 0-8218-1688-8

References

1. McGehee, Richard (1988). "Charles C. Conley, 1933–1984". Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems 8: 1–7. doi:10.1017/S0143385700009287.
2. Charles C. Conley at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

External links

• Charles C. Conley at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Works by Charles C. Conley at Open Library