Harold Raymond Parks (born May 22, 1949) is an American mathematician and is a professor emeritus of mathematics at Oregon State University.

Parks obtained his Ph.D. in 1974 from Princeton University, under the supervision of Frederick J. Almgren, Jr. In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Harold R. Parks

He has developed and implemented a computational technique for computing parametric area minimizing surfaces. He derived an existence and regularity theory for a class of constrained variational problems. Parks has discovered, and characterized, a type of minimal surface with surprising properties, defined in terms of the Jacobi elliptic functions.

Harold R. Parks

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1949 births

Living people

20th-century American mathematicians

21st-century American mathematicians

Fellows of the American Mathematical Society

Princeton University alumni

Oregon State University faculty

Harold R. Parks