Jesse Douglas was an American mathematician born in New York City in 1897 to a Jewish family. He graduated with honors in mathematics from City College of New York in 1916 and took his doctorate at Columbia University in 1920. In 1930 he solved the problem of Plateau, which asks whether a minimal surface exists for a given boundary, and for this he shared the first Fields Medals, awarded in 1936. He also contributed to the inverse problem of the calculus of variations and received the Bôcher Memorial Prize in 1943. He worked at Columbia, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Institute for Advanced Study, and later taught at City College until his death.
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was an American mathematician
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3 July 1897
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He also presented a series of papers On the basis theorem for finite abelian groups.
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he was awarded the Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians at Oslo in 1936
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