Jacob T. Schwartz
Jacob Theodore Schwartz, Jack Schwartz, (* January 9, 1930 in New York City; † March 2, 2009 in Manhattan ) was an American mathematician and computer scientist.
Life
Jacob T. Schwartz studied mathematics at Yale University, was there received his doctorate in 1952 with a dissertation Linear Elliptic Differential Operators in Nelson Dunford and appointed the following year as assistant professor. In 1957 he moved to New York University, where he became professor in 1958.
Schwartz also turned to computer science. He became involved in the then new field of parallel programming and devoted himself particularly to the design of shared memory architecture, from which emerged among other things, a collaboration with IBM; Furthermore, he has worked on programming languages , robotics and multimedia. His research interest is in addition to the spectral theory, von Neumann algebras (1967 appeared his textbook W * - Algebras, ISBN 0-677-00670-5 ) and the mathematics of quantum field theory.
Schwartz was co-editor of several journals, including Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, Advances in Applied Mathematics, Journal of Programming Languages , Discrete and Computational Geometry, Computers and Mathematics with Applications and Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought.
Together with Nelson Dunford, he received the prestigious 1981 Leroy P. Steele Prize of the American Mathematical Society for their three-volume work linear operator, which was published in the years 1958, 1963 and 1971 by Wiley:
- Dunford, Schwartz: Linear Operators, Part I, General Theory. ISBN 0-471-60848-3.
- Dunford, Schwartz: Linear Operators, Part II, Spectral Theory. ISBN 0-471-60847-5.
- Dunford, Schwartz: Linear Operators, Part III, Spectral Operators. ISBN 0-471-60846-7.
1976 Schwartz was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and in 2000 to the National Academy of Engineering.
Swell
- Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 28 (1981 ), pp. 510-511