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A perspective on the contributions of Alan C. Lazer to critical point theory. (English) Zbl 1055.58005

Summary: Over the last thirty five years Professor Alan C. Lazer has been a leading figure in the development of min-max methods and critical point theory for applications to partial differential equations. The author, his former student, summarizes from his own perspective Professor Lazer’s contributions to the subject.

MSC:

58E05 Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel’man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces
58-03 History of global analysis
01A70 Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies
34B15 Nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations
35J65 Nonlinear boundary value problems for linear elliptic equations
47J30 Variational methods involving nonlinear operators

Biographic References:

Lazer, Alan C.
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