Günter Lumer
Günter Lumer (often also Gunter Lumer ; born May 29, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main ; † June 2005 ) was a German-American mathematician whose main research areas were functional analysis and evolution equations.
life and work
After the National Socialists seized power in Germany in 1933, the Lumer family first fled to France and in 1941 to Uruguay . After graduating in electrical engineering from the University of Montevideo in 1957 with Paul Halmos , he moved to the University of Chicago on a Guggenheim scholarship . There he received his doctorate in 1959 . He completed his doctoral thesis on Numerical Range and States under Irving Kaplansky . After receiving his doctorate, he moved to the University of California, Los Angeles in 1959 , worked at Stanford University from 1960 to 1961 and at the University of Washington until 1974 . Until his death in 2005, he did research at the Université de Mons-Hainaut .
His most popular result is the Lumer-Phillips Theorem , which he published in 1961 together with Ralph Phillips .
Web links
- Literature by and about Günter Lumer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Functional Analysis and Evolution Equations - The Günter Lumer Volume
- Günter Lumer in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
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| SURNAME | Lumer, Günter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lumer, Gunter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 29, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 2005 |