Charles C. Conley

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

Conley was born in Royal Oak, Michigan. Starting in 1949, he attended Wayne State University in Detroit for one year before he joined the Air Force. After four and a half years in the Air Force, mostly stationed in England, he returned to Wayne State, where he earned a B.S. degree in 1957 and an M.S. degree in 1958.[1] He then moved to Boston, where he earned his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962 under the supervision of Jürgen Moser.[2] After a postdoc at New York University's Courant Institute, he took up in 1963 an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he was promoted to full Professor in 1968.[1]

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 (8): 1–7. doi:10.1017/S0143385700009287.
  2. Charles C. Conley at the Mathematics Genealogy Project


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