David Edmunds
David Eric Edmunds (* around 1931 ) is a British mathematician who deals with analysis .
Live and act
Edmunds grew up in Hirwaun as the son of a teacher. He attended the Aberdare Boys Grammar School and studied from 1949 on a state scholarship at Cardiff University , where he received his doctorate in 1955 under Rosa M. Morris ( The Moving Airfoil in the neighborhood of a plane boundary and related problems ). He was then an industrial mathematician from 1955 to 1957 (EMI Electronics Ltd.) and from 1957 a lecturer at the University of Wales in Cardiff, from 1965 as a senior lecturer. In 1966 he became a reader at the University of Sussex and in 1970 professor of mathematics. From 1996 he held a research professorship there and since 2011 he has been Professor Emeritus . 1986 to 1989 he headed the mathematics faculty.
In 1996 he received the Pólya Prize .
John M. Ball is one of his PhD students .
Fonts (selection)
- Hardy operators, functions spaces and embeddings . Springer Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-540-21972-2 (together with W. Desmond Evans).
- Bounded and compact integral operators (Mathematics and its applications; Vol. 543). Kluwer, Dordrecht 2002, ISBN 1-4020-0619-5 (together with Vakhtang Kokilashvili and Alexander Meskhi).
- Fourier approximation and embeddings of Sobolev spaces (Dissertationes mathematicae; Vol. 145). PWN, Warsaw 1977 (together with Vincenzo B. Moscatelli).
- Spectral theory and differential operators . Clarendon Press, Oxford 2002, ISBN 0-19-853542-2 (EA Oxford 1987; together with W. Desmond Evans).
- Function spaces, entropy numbers, differential operators . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1996, ISBN 0-521-56036-5 (together with Hans Triebel ).
Web links
- Literature by and about David Edmunds in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography at his old school
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Edmunds, David |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Edmunds, David Eric |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British mathematician |
DATE OF BIRTH | around 1931 |