Wells received his BA from Rice University in 1962 and his Ph.D. in 1965 from New York University under the supervision of Lipman Bers (On the local holomorphic hull of a real submanifold in several complex variables).[2] He was Professor of Mathematics at Rice University, where he served as chairman of the Department of Mathematics. After becoming Professor Emeritus from Rice, he co-founded the Jacobs University Bremen. He was Professor of Mathematics and Vice-President of External Affairs.
He has written books on twistors, wavelets, and analysis on complex manifolds.
With Howard L. Resnikoff Mathematics in Civilization, Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1973, 2nd Ed. Dover Publications 1984, 3rd Ed. Dover Publications 2015.
Complex Geometry in Mathematical Physics, Presses de L'Université Montréal, 1982.
With Howard L. Resnikoff, Wavelet Analysis – The Scalable Structure of Information, Springer Verlag 1998
With Richard S. Ward, Twistor Geometry and Field Theory, Cambridge University Press 1990.
Editor Several Complex Variables, two volumes, Symposium in Pure Mathematics, American Mathematical Society, 1977. Part 1
With Joseph A. Wolf, Poincaré series and automorphic cohomology on flag manifolds, Annals of Mathematics105 (1977), 397–448. doi:10.2307/1970918
With Daniel M. Burns and Steven Shnider, Deformations of strictly pseudoconvex domains, Inventiones Mathematicae46 (1978), 237–253. doi:10.1007/BF01390277
Wells Jr, R. O. (1979). "Complex manifolds and mathematical physics". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 1 (2): 296–336. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1979-14596-8. ISSN 0273-0979.
With Michael G. Eastwood and Roger Penrose, Eastwood, Michael G.; Penrose, Roger; Wells, R. O. (1981). "Cohomology and massless fields". Communications in Mathematical Physics. 78 (3): 305–351. Bibcode:1981CMaPh..78..305E. doi:10.1007/BF01942327. ISSN 0010-3616. S2CID 121012779.
Wells Jr, R. O. (1982). "The Cauchy-Riemann equations and differential geometry". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 6 (2): 187–199. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1982-14976-X. ISSN 0273-0979.
References
^Wells Jr., R. O. (1979). "Complex manifolds and mathematical physics". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 1 (2): 296–336. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1979-14596-8.
^Mathematics Genealogy Project
^List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-11-25.
^Hunacek, Mark (12 February 2018). "Review of Differential and Complex Geometry: Origins, Abstractions and Embeddings by Raymond O. Wells, Jr". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
^Gouvêa, Fernando Q. (25 March 2008). "Review of Differential Analysis on Complex Manifolds by Raymond O. Wells, Jr". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
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Conference on his 65th Birthday at Jacobs University