Edwin Hewitt
Edwin Hewitt (born January 20, 1920 in Everett (Washington) , † June 21, 1999 ) was an American mathematician who dealt with harmonic analysis .
The son of a lawyer, Hewitt attended school in Everett, Seattle , St. Louis, and Ann Arbor . From 1936 he studied mathematics at Harvard University , where he received his doctorate under Marshall Stone in 1942 (On a problem of set theoretic topology). After serving in the US Air Force in World War II, he was a Guggenheim Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1945/46 . He was then an assistant professor at Bryn Mawr College and the University of Chicago before becoming a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle in 1954 , where he remained until his retirement, apart from two interruptions as professor at Yale University in 1959 and at the University of Texas at Austin 1972/73. He has held numerous visiting professorships, including at Uppsala University , Australia, the Steklow Institute in Moscow, Erlangen-Nuremberg University , Singapore, Alaska (Fairbanks), Sapporo (Hokkaido University). Since he spoke French, Swedish, Russian, Japanese and German, he often taught in the languages of the host university.
Hewitt dealt with abstract harmonic analysis (generalizations of Fourier analysis for locally compact Abelian groups and compact non- Abelian groups, instead of the circle or the real number line in the case of the Fourier series). He wrote about it with Kenneth A. Ross (professor at the University of Oregon ) his two-volume standard work Abstract Harmonic Analysis in the basic teaching of the mathematical sciences series of the Springer publishing house.
He also translated various Russian books into English, for example the Elements of Representation Theory by Alexander Kirillow .
Fonts
- with Kenneth A. Ross Abstract Harmonic Analysis , Springer Verlag, Vol. 1, 1963, 2nd edition 1979, Vol. 2 1970
- with Karl Stromberg: Real and abstract analysis: a modern treatment of the theory of functions of a real variable , Springer 1965, 1975
- Theory of functions of a real variable , New York, Rinehart and Winston 1960
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| SURNAME | Hewitt, Edwin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 20, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Everett , Washington |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 21, 1999 |