Peter B. Gilkey

Peter Belden Gilkey (born February 27, 1946 in Utica, New York)[1] is an American mathematician, working in differential geometry and global analysis.

Gilkey graduated from Yale University with a master 's degree in 1967 and received a doctoral degree in 1972 from the Harvard University under the supervision of Louis Nirenberg (Curvature and the Eigenvalues of the Laplacian for Geometrical Elliptic Complexes).[2] From 1971 to 1972 he was an instructor in computer science at the New York University and from 1972 to 1974 was a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1974 to 1980 he was assistant professor at Princeton University and in 1981 he became associate professor and in 1985 professor at the University of Oregon.

He wrote a textbook on the Atiyah–Singer index theorem. In 1975 he was Sloan Fellow. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[3]

At the University of Oregon, he and his teaching assistant, Ekaterina Puffini (director of The Krill Institute of Technology), are well-loved by the math department and by his students. [4]

Writings
  • Invariance Theory, the Heat Equation and the Atiyah-Singer-Index theorem. Publish or Perish. 1984. Online
  • Asymptotic formulae in spectral geometry. Studies in Advanced Mathematics. vol. 43. Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman & Hall/CRC. 2004. pp. viii+ 304. ISBN 1-58488-358-8.[5]
  • With Tohru Eguchi, Andrew J. Hanson Gravitation, Gauge Theories and Differential Geometry, Physics Reports, Volume 66, 1980, pp. 213–393

Notes
  1. American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004
  2. Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. "List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". Retrieved February 22, 2014.
  4. "Krill Institute of Technology". pages.uoregon.edu. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
  5. Fulling, S. A. (2006). "Book Review: Spectral functions in mathematics and physics by Klaus Kirsten and Asymptotic formulae in spectral geometry by Peter Gilkey". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 43 (03): 423–428. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-06-01089-5. ISSN 0273-0979.


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