Griffith C. Evans

Griffith Conrad Evans ( born May 11, 1887 † December 8, 1973 ) was an American mathematician who dealt with Analysis.

Evans was in 1910 when Maxime Bôcher at Harvard University doctoral thesis on the integral equation of Volterra. As a post - graduate student, he spent two years at Volterra in Rome. In 1912 he was appointed Assistant Professor in 1916 and Professor at the Rice Institute. In 1934 he went to the University of California, Berkeley, where he set up the mathematics faculty at one of the leading in the country, in particular by bringing many emigrated from Europe mathematician at the University (for example, Alfred Tarski, Hans Lewy, Jerzy Neyman ). He stood in front of the mathematics department at Berkeley from 1934 to 1949 and went into retirement in 1955.

As a mathematician, he was concerned with potential theory, integral equations, and applications of mathematics in business.

In 1933 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences. 1939/40, he was president of the American Mathematical Society. The Evans Hall, Berkeley is named after him.

He was married in 1917 and had three children.

Writings

• The logarithmic potential, discontinuous Dirichlet and Neumann problems, American Mathematical Society 1927
• Mathematical introduction to economics, McGraw Hill 1930
• Stabilité et dynamique de la dans l' économie politique production, Gauthier -Villars 1932
• Lectures on multiple valued harmonic functions in space, University of California Press 1951
• Functionals and their applications; selected topics including integral equations, Dover 1964