Juha Heinonen

Juha Heinonen (23 July 1960, Toivakka – 30 October 2007) was a Finnish mathematician, known for his research on geometric function theory.

Biography Heinonen, whose father was a lumberjack and local politician, grew up in a small town in central Finland. He studied mathematics at the University of Jyväskylä and received his doctorate there in 1987 with a thesis on nonlinear potential theory. His thesis advisor was Olli Martio. During the academic year 1987–1988 Heinonen was a visiting researcher at the Deutsche Forschunsgemeinschaft in Bonn and then at the Centre de Recerca Matemática in Barcelona.

In 1991 he married the mathematician Karen E. Smith. They had three children.

Selected publications Articles

Books and monographs (originally published by Oxford University Press in 1993)