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{{short description|German mathematician}}
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| name              = Jürgen Jost
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| caption           = Jost (right) with [[Biography:Yum-Tong Siu|Yum-Tong Siu]] and [[Biography:Mina Teicher|Mina Teicher]] in 2008
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| birth_place       = Münster, Germany
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| fields            = [[Mathematics]]
| workplaces        = Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
| alma_mater        = [[Organization:University of Bonn|University of Bonn]]
| thesis_title      = Eineindeutigkeit harmonischer Abbildungen
| thesis_url        = https://bonnus.ulb.uni-bonn.de/SummonRecord/FETCH-bonn_catalog_9387652
| thesis_year       = 1980
| doctoral_advisor  = {{ill|Stefan Hildebrandt|de}}
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| awards            = Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (1993)
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'''Jürgen Jost''' (born 9 June 1956) is a German [[Biography:Mathematician|mathematician]] specializing in geometry. He has been a director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig since 1996.

== Life and work ==
In 1975, he began studying mathematics, physics, economics and philosophy. In 1980 he received a [[Social:Dr. rer. nat.|Dr. rer. nat.]] from the [[Organization:University of Bonn|University of Bonn]] under the supervision of {{ill|Stefan Hildebrandt|de}}.<ref>{{MathGenealogy|47011}}</ref> In 1984 he was at the University of Bonn for the habilitation. After his habilitation, he was at the [[Organization:Ruhr University Bochum|Ruhr University Bochum]], the chair of Mathematics X, Analysis. During this time he was the coordinator of the project "Stochastic Analysis and systems with infinitely many degrees of freedom" July 1987 to December 1996.

For this work he received the 1993 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, awarded by the [[Organization:Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft|Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft]].

Since 1996, he has been director and scientific member at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig. After more than 10 years of work in Bochum, this he followed: "tackle new research problems in the border area between mathematics and the natural sciences and simultaneously encourage mathematical research in Germany, particularly in the fields of geometry and analysis."

In 1998 he was an honorary professor at the University of Leipzig. In 2002, there, he initiated with two other scientists from the Max Planck Institute, the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics (IZBI).

In 1986 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berkeley (''Two dimensional geometric variational problems''). He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.<ref>[http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved 23 November 2013.</ref>

His research focuses are:
*Complex dynamical systems
*[[Neural network]]s
*Cognitive structures and theoretical neurobiology, [[Cognitive science|cognitive science]], theoretical and mathematical biology
*[[Riemannian geometry]]; analysis and geometry
*Calculus of variations and [[Partial differential equation|partial differential equation]]s; [[Physics:Mathematical physics|mathematical physics]]

== Bibliography ==
* {{cite book | last=Jost | first=Jürgen | title=Harmonic mappings between Riemannian manifolds | publisher=Centre for Mathematical Analysis, Australian National University | publication-place=Canberra | year=1983 | isbn=0-86784-403-5 | oclc=13282393}}
* {{cite book | last=Jost | first=Jürgen | title=Lecture Notes in Mathematics | chapter=Harmonic Maps Between Surfaces (with a Special Chapter on Conformal Mappings) | publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg | publication-place=Berlin, Heidelberg | year=1984 | volume=1062 | isbn=978-3-540-13339-1 | issn=0075-8434 | doi=10.1007/bfb0100160}}
* {{cite book | last=Jost | first=Jürgen | title=Nonlinear Methods in Riemannian and Kählerian Geometry : Delivered at the German Mathematical Society Seminar in Düsseldorf in June, 1986 | publisher=Birkhäuser Basel Imprint Birkhäuser | publication-place=Basel | year=1988 | isbn=978-3-0348-7690-2 | oclc=851812426}}
* {{cite book | last=Jost | first=Jürgen | title=Two-dimensional geometric variational problems | publisher=Wiley | publication-place=Chichester New York | year=1991 | isbn=978-0-471-92839-3 | oclc=21672946}}
* {{cite book | title=Differentialgeometrie und Minimalflächen | publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg | publication-place=Berlin, Heidelberg | year=2007 | isbn=978-3-540-22227-9 | doi=10.1007/978-3-540-68293-6 | ref={{sfnref | Springer Berlin Heidelberg | 2007}}}}
* {{cite book | last=Jost | first=Jürgen | title=Riemannian geometry and geometric analysis | publisher=Springer | publication-place=Cham, Switzerland | year=2017 | isbn=978-3-319-61859-3 | oclc=1007152776}}
* {{cite book | last=Jost | first=Jürgen | title=Compact Riemann Surfaces | publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg | publication-place=Berlin, Heidelberg | year=2006 | isbn=978-3-540-33065-3 | doi=10.1007/978-3-540-33067-7}}
* {{cite book | last=Jost | first=Jürgen | title=Postmodern analysis | publisher=Springer | publication-place=Berlin | year=2005 | isbn=978-3-540-25830-8 | oclc=209870644}}
* {{cite book | last=Albeverio | first=Sergio | title=A mathematical introduction to string theory : variational problems, geometric and probabilistic methods | publisher=Cambridge University Press | publication-place=Cambridge New York | year=1997 | isbn=978-0-521-55610-1 | oclc=836871453}}
* {{cite book | last=Jost | first=Jürgen | title=Calculus of variations | publisher=Cambridge University Press | publication-place=Cambridge, UK New York | year=1998 | isbn=978-0-521-05712-7 | oclc=39658898}}
* {{cite book | last=Jost | first=Jürgen | title=Nonpositive curvature : geometric and analytic aspects | publisher=Birkhäuser | publication-place=Basel Boston | year=1997 | isbn=978-3-7643-5736-8 | oclc=36761646}}
* {{cite book | last=Jost | first=Jürgen | title=Partielle Differential-gleichungen | publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg | publication-place=Berlin, Heidelberg | year=1998 | isbn=978-3-540-64222-0 | doi=10.1007/978-3-642-58888-4}}
*''Bosonic Strings: A mathematical treatment,'' AMS international press, 2001
* {{cite book | last=Jost | first=Jürgen | title=Graduate Texts in Mathematics | chapter=Partial Differential Equations | publisher=Springer New York | publication-place=New York, NY | year=2013 | volume=214 | isbn=978-1-4614-4808-2 | issn=0072-5285 | doi=10.1007/978-1-4614-4809-9}}
* {{cite book | last=Jost | first=Jürgen | title=Dynamical systems : examples of complex behaviour | publisher=Springer | publication-place=Berlin New York | year=2005 | isbn=978-3-540-22908-7 | oclc=209861174}}
* {{cite book | last=Jost | first=Jürgen | title=Geometry and physics | publisher=Springer | publication-place=Berlin London | year=2009 | isbn=978-3-642-00540-4 | oclc=489215723}}
* {{Cite book |last=Ay |first=Nihat |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1007533823 |title=Information geometry |date=2017 |first2=Jürgen |last2=Jost |first3=Hông Vân |last3=Lê |first4=Lorenz |last4=Schwachhöfer |isbn=978-3-319-56477-7 |location=Cham |oclc=1007533823}}

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.mis.mpg.de/jjost/juergen-jost.html Webpage at Max-Planck-Institut]
* [http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/rubens/rubens15/6.htm Interview with Jürgen Jost and Dr. Hans-Joachim Freund]

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