Nelson Dunford

Nelson Dunford ( born December 12, 1906 in St. Louis, Missouri, † September 7, 1986 in Sarasota, Florida ) was an American mathematician.

Nelson Dunford studied mathematics at the University of Chicago in 1938 and his doctorate at Brown University under JD Tamarkin. There he spent a year as a lecturer, then moved to Yale University, where he was appointed professor in 1943 and remained until his retirement in 1960.

His main area of ​​work was the functional analysis, in particular vector-valued integration, ergodic theory and linear operators. The Dunford - Pettis property is associated with his name.

Along with Jacob T. Schwartz, 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.

Nelson Dunford was co-editor of the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (1941-1945) and the Mathematical Surveys ( 1945-1949 ).

Swell

  • Obituary notices in Amer. Math Soc., Volume 34, 1987, p 287
  • Mathematicians ( 20th century)
  • Americans
  • Born in 1906
  • Died in 1986
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