Education
He received a Doctor of Philosophy from New York University in 1966 under the direction of Juergen Moser.
mathematician university professor
He received a Doctor of Philosophy from New York University in 1966 under the direction of Juergen Moser.
From 1966 to 1969 he held a position as Assistant Professor at Stanford University. He has visited many mathematical institutions all over the world (among them universities at Aarhus, Pisa, Paris and Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zurich). In 1978 Paul Rabinowitz became a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
He works in the fields of partial differential equations and nonlinear analysis.
He is best known for his global bifurcation theorem and the mountain pass theorem, the latter done jointly with Antonio Ambrosetti. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the George David in 1998.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
American Mathematical Society. National Academy of Sciences]
He was elected as a member of the United States National Academy of Science in 1998.