Michael Gage
Michael Eaton Gage is a mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Rochester. He is known for his work on the curve-shortening flow, and in particular for the Gage–Hamilton–Grayson theorem, proved by Gage with Richard Hamilton and Matthew Grayson, which describes the behavior of any smooth Jordan curve under the curve-shortening flow.[1][2][3] He is also one of the original developers of the WeBWorK online homework delivery system.[4]
Gage did his undergraduate studies at Antioch College,[5] and completed his Ph.D. in mathematics at Stanford University in 1978, under the supervision of Robert Osserman.[6] He has worked as a systems programmer for Intel,[7] and joined the Rochester faculty in 1984.[5]
Gage was the 1996–1997 winner of the distinguished teaching award of the Seaway Section of the Mathematical Association of America.[5]
References
- ↑ Chou, Kai-Seng; Zhu, Xi-Ping (2001), The Curve Shortening Problem, Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC, p. vii, doi:10.1201/9781420035704, ISBN 1-58488-213-1, MR 1888641.
- ↑ Cao, Frédéric (2003), Geometric Curve Evolution and Image Processing, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1805, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, p. 47, doi:10.1007/b10404, ISBN 3-540-00402-5, MR 1976551.
- ↑ Devadoss, Satyan L.; O'Rourke, Joseph (2011), Discrete and Computational Geometry, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, p. 141, ISBN 978-0-691-14553-2, MR 2790764.
- ↑ Sangwin, Chris (2013), Computer Aided Assessment of Mathematics, Oxford University Press, p. 153, ISBN 9780191635854.
- 1 2 3 "1996-1997 Seaway Section Distinguished Teaching Award: Dr. Michael Gage", Seaway Section of the MAA: Distinguished Teaching Awards, retrieved 2015-11-16.
- ↑ Michael Gage at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Ewing, John (1999), Towards Excellence: Leading a Doctoral Mathematics Department in the 21st Century, American Mathematical Society Task Force on Excellence, p. 148, ISBN 9780821820339.