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About Harold R. Parks
- Harold Raymond Parks (born May 22, 1949) is an American mathematician and is a professor emeritus of mathematics at Oregon State University.Parks obtained his Ph.D.
- in 1974 from Princeton University, under the supervision of Frederick J.
- Almgren, Jr.
- In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.He has developed and implemented a computational technique for computing parametric area minimizing surfaces.
- He derived an existence and regularity theory for a class of constrained variational problems.
- Parks has discovered, and characterized, a type of minimal surface with surprising properties, defined in terms of the Jacobi elliptic functions.
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