Vladimír_Šverák

Vladimír Šverák

Vladimír Šverák

Czech mathematician

Vladimír Šverák (born 1959) is a Czech mathematician. Since 1990, he has been a professor at the University of Minnesota. Šverák made notable contributions to calculus of variations.

Šverák obtained his doctorate from the Charles University in Prague in 1986, under supervision of Jindřich Nečas.[1] He worked on problems in the theory of non-linear elasticity. In 1992, he won an EMS Prize for producing a counterexample to a problem first posed by Charles B. Morrey, Jr. in 1950, whether rank-one convexity implies quasiconvexity.[2] In 1994, Šverák was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Joseph, Anthony, ed. (1994). First European Congress of Mathematics: Invited lectures. Nelson Thornes. ISBN 3-7643-2798-7.
  2. [2]
    ——— (1992). "Rank-one convexity does not imply quasiconvexity". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section A. 120 (1–2): 185–189. doi:10.1017/S0308210500015080. ISSN 0308-2105. S2CID 120192116.
  3. [3]
    Šverák, Vladimir (1995). "Lower-semicontinuity of variational integrals and compensated compactness". Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians. Birkhäuser, Basel. pp. 1153–1158.


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