Griffith C. Evans

Griffith Conrad Evans (born May 11, 1887 , † December 8, 1973 ) was an American mathematician who dealt with analysis .

Evans received his doctorate in 1910 with Maxime Bôcher at Harvard University on the integral equation of Volterra . As a post-doctoral student , he spent two years at Volterra in Rome. In 1912 he became Assistant Professor and in 1916 Professor at the Rice Institute . In 1934 he went to the University of California, Berkeley , where he built the mathematics faculty into one of the leading in the country, in particular by bringing many mathematicians who had emigrated from Europe to the university (for example Alfred Tarski , Hans Lewy , Jerzy Neyman ). He headed the math faculty at Berkeley from 1934 to 1949 and retired in 1955.

As a mathematician, he dealt with potential theory , integral equations and applications of mathematics in business.

Since 1921 he was a fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1933 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences , 1934 the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and 1941 the American Philosophical Society . 1939/40 he was President of the American Mathematical Society . The Evans Hall in Berkeley is named after him.

He had been married since 1917 and had three children.

Fonts

The logarithmic potential, discontinuous Dirichlet and Neumann problems , American Mathematical Society 1927
Mathematical introduction to economics , McGraw Hill 1930
Stabilité et dynamique de la production dans l'économie politique , Gauthier-Villars 1932
Lectures on multiple valued harmonic functions in space , University of California Press 1951
Functionals and their applications; selected topics including integral equations , Dover 1964

Charles B. Morrey , Obituary in Biographical Memoirs National Academy of Sciences, 1983, online