Adriaan Cornelis Zaanen

Adriaan " Aad " Cornelis Zaanen ( born June 14, 1913 in Rotterdam, † 1 April 2003 in Wassenaar ) was a Dutch mathematician who was concerned with functional analysis.

Life

Zaanen 1938 in John Droste at Leiden University, PhD ( Over reeksen van eigenfuncties van zekere edge problems ). After that, he was a math teacher at secondary grammar school in Rotterdam. In addition, he taught from 1946 at the Technical University Delft and was a lecturer at the University of Leiden. 1947 to 1950 he was a professor at the Institut Teknologi Bandung, then was Professor at the Technical University Delft and from 1956 professor at the University of Leiden. In 1982, he went into retirement.

It dealt among other things with Riesz spaces and wrote about a monograph with his student Wim Luxembourg.

His doctoral include Wilhelmus Luxembourg ( born 1929, professor at Caltech ) and Marinus Kaashoek.

1970 to 1972 he was president of the Netherlands Mathematical Society ( from 1988 whose honorary member) and from 1953 to 1982 one of the editors of the Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde. He was a member of the Netherlands Academy of Sciences (1960) and Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion (1982).

Writings

• Linear Analysis. Measure and integral, Banach and Hilbert space, linear integral equations, North -Holland 1953, 1957, 1960
• Integration, North -Holland 1967
• An Introduction to the Theory of Integration, North Holland 1958, 1961, 1965
• With WAJ Luxembourg: Riesz Spaces, 2 volumes, North Holland 1971, 1983
• Introduction to Operator Theory in Riesz Spaces, Springer Verlag 1997
• Continuity, Integration and Fourier Theory, Springer Verlag 1989
• Looking back: farewell lecture at Leiden University ( Dutch), Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde, 1983, 224-240.