Alan Weinstein
Alan David Weinstein is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who works in symplectic geometry, Poisson geometry, and mathematical physics.
Weinstein completed his Ph.D. at Berkeley in 1967 under the direction of Shiing-Shen Chern. His dissertation was entitled "The cut locus and conjugate locus of a Riemannian manifold". He is a former chair of the Department of Mathematics at Berkeley.
He has supervised the Ph.D. theses of 34 students, including Viktor Ginzburg and Steven Zelditch.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.Books
- , by A. Cannas da Silva and A. Weinstein, was published in 1999 by the American Mathematical Society in the Berkeley Mathematics Lecture Notes series.
- , by S. Bates and A. Weinstein, was published in 1997 in the same series.
- Basic Multivariable Calculus, by J.E. Marsden, A.J. Tromba, and A. Weinstein, was published in 1993 by W.A. Freeman and Company and by Springer-Verlag.
- Jerrold E. Marsden and A. Weinstein, Calculus Unlimited, Benjamin/Cummings is now out of print and is now free at CaltechAUTHORS.
- J. E. Marsden and A. Weinstein, Calculus, I, II, III', 2nd ed., Springer-Verlag is now out of print and is now free at CaltechAUTHORS.
