Leon Simon

Leon Melvyn Simon
Simon in 2005
Born	(1945-07-06) 6 July 1945 (age 79)
Alma mater	University of Adelaide
Known for	Łojasiewicz−Simon inequalities Regularity theory of second-order elliptic partial differential equations, minimal hypersurfaces, and the mean curvature vector
Awards	Leroy P. Steele Prize Bôcher Memorial Prize Australian Mathematical Society Medal AAAS Fellow AMS Fellow Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science Fellow of the Royal Society
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Flinders University Australian National University University of Melbourne University of Minnesota ETH Zurich Stanford University
Thesis	Interior Gradient Bounds for Non-Uniformly Elliptic Equations  (1971)
Doctoral advisor	James Henry Michael
Doctoral students	Richard Schoen Tatiana Toro

Leon Melvyn Simon FAA, born in 1945, is a Leroy P. Steele Prize^[1] and Bôcher Prize-winning^[2] mathematician, known for deep contributions to the fields of geometric analysis, geometric measure theory, and partial differential equations. He is currently Professor Emeritus in the Mathematics Department at Stanford University.