Raymond Paley

Raymond Edward Allen Christopher Paley ( born January 7, 1907 in Bournemouth, † April 7, 1933 at Banff ) was an English mathematician who worked on Analysis.

Life and work

Paley attended Eton and studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, John Edensor Littlewood. Even as a student he won many awards (including Wrangler he was with Distinction in the Tripos, was Baldwin Scholar and Prizeman Pemberton and Yeats ). In 1930 Raymond Paley the Smith Prize and became a Fellow of Trinity College. With Littlewood and Antoni Zygmund, he worked on Fourier series and then went with a Rockefeller Fellowship in the United States to continue to work with Norbert Wiener at MIT in harmonic analysis. The set of Paley -Wiener is associated with his name. His remarkable career was cut in 1933 (for the following year, he was assigned as AMS Colloquium Lecturer ) when he was spilled during a skiing holiday in Banff in the Canadian Rockies by an avalanche. He had been traveling on my own in about 3000m altitude.