Sheldon Axler

Sheldon Jay Axler ( born November 6, 1949) is an American mathematician.

Axler went to Miami to school and studied at Princeton University, where, in 1971 his bachelor's degree in mathematics made ​​with top marks. He received his doctorate in 1975 at the University of California, Berkeley, Donald Sarason ( Subalgebras of). As a post - graduate student, he was Moore Instructor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He taught as a professor at Michigan State University before 1997 Professor and Head of the Mathematics Department at San Francisco State University. He was there from 2002 dean of the College of Science and Engineering.

He is known for several textbooks and school books, in particular, be common in the U.S. textbook of linear algebra, in which he seeks to avoid determinants in teaching.

In 2012 he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. In 1996 he was awarded the Lester Randolph Ford Award for Down with Determinants.

Axler was co-editor of the American Mathematical Monthly and was editor of the Mathematical Intelligencer.

Writings

• With Paul Bourdon, Wade Ramey Harmonic function theory, 2nd edition, Springer Verlag, Graduate Texts in Mathematics 2001
• Linear Algebra Done Right, Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer Verlag, 2nd edition 1997, 12th reprint 2009
• John E. McCarthy, Donald Sarason (Editor) holomorphic Spaces, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
• Precalculus: A Prelude to Calculus, Wiley, 2009
• Peter Rosenthal, Donald Sarason (Editor) A Glimpse at Hilbert Space Operators, Birkhäuser, 2010.
• College Algebra, Wiley, 2011.
• Algebra & Trigonometry, Wiley, 2011.