Education
Leon Simon, born 6 July 1945, received his Bachelor of Science from the University of Adelaide in 1967, and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1971 from the same institution, under the direction of James H. Michael.
mathematician university professor
Leon Simon, born 6 July 1945, received his Bachelor of Science from the University of Adelaide in 1967, and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1971 from the same institution, under the direction of James H. Michael.
He is currently Professor in the Mathematics Department at Stanford University. Academic career His doctoral thesis was titled Interior Gradient Bounds for Non-Uniformly Elliptic Equations. He was employed from 1968 to 1971 as a Tutor in Mathematics by the University.
Simon has since held a variety of academic positions.
He worked first at Flinders University as a lecturer, then at Australian National University as a professor, at the University of Melbourne, the University of Minnesota, at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, and at Stanford. He first came to Stanford in 1973 as Visiting Assistant Professor and was awarded a full professorship in 1986.
Royal Society; American Mathematical Society.