David Edmunds

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David Eric Edmunds (* around 1931 ) is a British mathematician who deals with analysis .

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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 ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
personal data
SURNAME Edmunds, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Edmunds, David Eric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1931