Ronald G. Douglas
Ronald George Douglas (born December 10, 1938) is an American mathematician, best known for his work on operator algebras.
Douglas was born in Osgood, Indiana. He was an undergraduate at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and received his Ph.D. in 1962 from Louisiana State University as a student of Pasquale Porcelli. He was at the University of Michigan until 1969, when he moved to the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Beginning in 1986 he moved into university administration, eventually becoming Vice Provost at Stony Brook in 1990, and Provost at Texas A&M University from 1996 until 2002. Currently he is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Texas A&M. He has three children, including Michael R. Douglas, a noted string theorist.
He is the author of the book Banach Algebra Techniques in Operator Theory in the series Graduate Texts in Mathematics.
Among his best-known contributions to science is a 1977 paper with de and Peter A. Fillmore, which introduced techniques from algebraic topology into the theory of operator algebras. This work was an important precursor to noncommutative geometry as later developed by Alain Connes among others.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[1]
See also
References
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2012-11-10.
- Brown, L. G.; Douglas, R. G.; Fillmore, P. A., "Extensions of C*-algebras and K-homology", Annals of Mathematics (2) 105 (1977), no. 2, 265–324. MR0458196
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