Joel Alan Smoller (2 January 1936 – 27 September 2017) was an American mathematician.
Joel Smoller was born in Brooklyn on 2 January 1936 to parents Benjamin, a taxicab driver, and Olga, who died when he was young.
In 1970, he was appointed a full professor, and assumed the Lamberto Cesari Collegiate Professorship of Mathematics in 1998.
[1][2] He was editor of Transactions of the American Mathematical Society from 1981 to 1985, and later the Journal for Applicable Analysis.
[3] Smoller was award a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1979,[4] the George David Birkhoff Prize in 2009,[1] and elected to fellowship of the American Mathematical Society in 2013, a member of its inaugural class of fellows.