Felix Browder

Felix Earl Browder ( born July 31, 1927 in Moscow) is an American mathematician who deals with functional analysis.

Browder is the son of the temporary secretary of the United States Earl Browder Communist Party and the older brother of the mathematician William Browder. He received his Ph.D. in 1948 at Princeton University in Solomon Lefschetz (The topological fixed point theory and its applications to functional analysis ), was then in 1948 Moore Instructor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was a professor at the University of Chicago, where he for 12 years chairman the mathematics department was. Since 1986 he has been at Rutgers University as vice director of research. 1953 and 1963/64, he was at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Browder had a leading role in the development of nonlinear functional analysis and its application in the theory of nonlinear partial differential equations, such as evolution equations since the 1950s. He was also active in mathematics education and the organization of important conferences of the American Mathematical Society ( AMS) via open problems of mathematics.

In 1999 he received the National Medal of Science. 1999 to 2000 he was president of the American Mathematical Society, of which he is a Fellow. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1973 ) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1959). 1953/54 and 1966/67, he was a Guggenheim Fellow, 1959-1963 Sloan Fellow. In 1970 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice ( Recent results in nonlinear functional analysis and applications to partial differential equations ).

Writings

  • Publisher: Mathematical Developments Arising from Hilbert's problem, AMS 1976 ( Symposium in Pure Mathematics, Northern Illinois University, 1974)
  • Publisher: Mathematics of the 21st Century -1988 centennial symposium, AMS 1992
  • Publisher: Mathematical Heritage of Henri Poincaré, AMS 1983 ( Symposium Indiana University, 1980)
  • Publisher: Nonlinear and global analysis, AMS 1992
  • Problemes non line aires, Montreal 1966
  • Nonlinear operators and nonlinear equations of evolution in Banach Space, AMS 1976
  • Publisher: Nonlinear functional analysis, AMS 1970 ( Symposium Chicago 1968)
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