Frederick J. Almgren, Jr.
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Frederick Justin Almgren, Jr. (July 3, 1933, Birmingham, Alabama–February 5, 1997, Princeton, New Jersey) was a mathematician working in geometric measure theory. His most important work was in regularity of mass-minimizing surfaces (with applications in solutions to Plateau's problem). He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1974.
He was a student of Herbert Federer, one of the founders of geometric measure theory. He was the advisor and husband of Jean Taylor.
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