F. Reese Harvey

F. Reese Harvey
Born	Frank Reese Harvey
Education	Carnegie Mellon University (BS, MA, 1963) Stanford University (PhD, 1966)
Known for	Calibrated geometry
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics, Differential geometry
Institutions	Rice University
Thesis	Hyperfunctions and Linear Partial Differential Equations  (1966)
Doctoral advisor	Hikosaburo Komatsu

Frank Reese Harvey is professor emeritus of mathematics at Rice University, known for contributions to the field of differential geometry. He obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1966, under the direction of Hikosaburo Komatsu. Over half of his work has been done in collaboration with Blaine Lawson. Their 1982 introduction of calibrated geometry, in particular, is among the most widely cited papers in differential geometry. It is instrumental in the formulation of the SYZ conjecture.

In 1983 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw. In 2024, he was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences.

Major publications

• Harvey, Reese; Polking, John (1970). "Removable singularities of solutions of linear partial differential equations". Acta Mathematica. 125: 39–56. doi:10.1007/BF02838327. MR 0279461. Zbl 0214.10001.
• Harvey, F. Reese; Lawson, H. Blaine Jr. (1975). "On boundaries of complex analytic varieties. I". Annals of Mathematics. Second Series. 102 (2): 223–290. doi:10.2307/1971032. MR 0425173. Zbl 0317.32017.
• Harvey, Reese; Lawson, H. Blaine Jr. (1982). "Calibrated geometries". Acta Mathematica. 148: 47–157. doi:10.1007/BF02392726. MR 0666108. Zbl 0584.53021.
• Harvey, F. Reese (1990). Spinors and calibrations. Perspectives in Mathematics. Vol. 9. Boston, MA: Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-329650-1. MR 1045637. Zbl 0694.53002.