Richard William Beals (28 May 1938, Erie, Pennsylvania)[1] is an American mathematician who works on partial differential equations and functional analysis.
Beals studied at Yale University earning a B.A.
in 1962, and a Ph.D. in 1964 under Felix Browder with thesis Non-Local Boundary Value Problems for Elliptic Partial Differential Operators.
[3] Beals works on inverse problems in scattering theory, integrable systems, pseudodifferential operators, complex analysis, global analysis and transport theory.
He should not be confused with the mathematics professor at Rutgers University named R. Michael Beals (born in 1954), who is Richard Beals's brother.