Books By Valentina Georgoulas, Joel W. Robbin, Dietmar Arno Salamon - Author

Valentina Georgoulas was born in Zürich in 1978. She studied theoretical physics at ETH Zürich, where she received her master degree in 2008. She then went on to doctoral studies in mathematics and in 2016 completed her PhD in mathematics at ETH Zürich under the direction of Dietmar Salamon. After further training, she now works as a high school teacher for mathematics at MNG Rämibühl in Zürich. She is the mother of two children.

Joel W. Robbin was born in Chicago in 1941 and completed his PhD at Princeton University in 1965 under the direction of Alonzo Church. After a postdoctoral position in Princeton he took up an Assistant Professorship at the University of Wisconsin-Madson in 1967, where he became full Professor in 1973, and emeritus in 2010. Joel Robbin began his research in mathematical logic (and wrote a text book on this subject) and later moved on to dynamical systems and symplectic topology. In 1970 he proved a conjecture by Stephen Smale which asserts t