Harry Pollard (mathematician)

Harry Strange Pollard ( born February 28, 1919 in Boston, † 20 November 1985) was an American mathematician who dealt with Analysis and celestial mechanics.

Life and work

Pollard was in 1942 a PhD from Harvard University with David Widder ( Studies of the Stieltjes Transform). He was a professor at Cornell University and in 1961 at Purdue University.

1952/53, he was at the Institute for Advanced Study.

He dealt in particular with the N - body problem ( collisions, asymptotics, virial theorem ) in celestial mechanics.

In probability theory, the set of Erdos, Feller and Pollard is named after him, which is in the renewal theory of meaning.

Among his doctoral students include Louis de Branges and Donald Saari.