Walter Rudin

Walter Rudin ( born 2 May 1921 in Vienna, † 20 May 2010) was an American mathematician who worked on Analysis.

Life

Rudin came from an old Austrian Jewish family. His great-grandfather was Zündholzfabrikant and was knighted, his father Robert Pollak- Rudin was an electrical engineer. After the Anschluss in 1938 he was excluded from school and fled via Switzerland to France. Rudin 1940 fled to England, where he served in the Navy. After the war, he went in 1945 in the United States. It was founded in 1949 at Duke University with John Gergen doctorate ( Uniqueness theory of Laplace Series). Then he was Moore Instructor at MIT, was at the University of Rochester and finally from 1959 professor at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, where he went in 1991 to retire and finally professor emeritus.

Rudin dealt among other things with harmonic analysis and the theory of complex functions of several variables. He is in the U.S. mainly due to its widespread Analysis - known textbooks: Principles of Mathematical Analysis (known as "Baby Rudin " ) and Real and Complex Analysis (known as "Big Rudin "). For this he was awarded the 1993 Leroy P. Steele Prize. He became an honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna in 2005. In 1970 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice (Harmonic analysis in polydiscs ) and in Stockholm in 1962 (The extension Problem for positive definite functions).

Since 1953 he was with the mathematician Mary Ellen Rudin, Estill, born, married, worked as a professor at the University of Wisconsin -Madison from 1971 also specialize in general topology. With her he had four children. The couple lived in Madison, Wisconsin in a house built by Frank Lloyd Wright house in 1957.

Writings

  • Principles of Mathematical Analysis. 1953, 2nd edition, McGraw Hill 1964, German " Analysis", 3rd edition, Oldenbourg Verlag, 2005.
  • Real and Complex Analysis. 1966, 2nd edition, McGraw Hill 1974, 3rd edition 1987, German " Real and Complex Analysis", Oldenbourg Verlag, 1999.
  • Functional Analysis. 2nd edition, McGraw Hill 1991.
  • Fourier Analysis on Groups. New York, Interscience 1962, Wiley 1990.
  • Function Theory in Polydiscs, Benjamin 1969.
  • Function Theory in the Unit Ball of. Springer 1980.
  • The Way I Remember It, American Mathematical Society 1997 ( autobiography)
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