Howard Elton Lacey

Howard Elton Lacey (born February 9, 1937 in Leakey , Texas , † June 21, 2013 in Lakeway , Texas) was an American mathematician who studied analysis .

Howard Lacey studied at Texas A&M University and Abilene Christian University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1959 and a master's degree in 1960. He received his doctorate in 1963 from New Mexico State University under Edward Thorp ( Generalized Compact Operators in Locally Convex Spaces ) and was then Assistant Professor at Abilene Christian University. From 1964 he was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin . In 1980 he became a professor at Texas A&M University, where he headed the math faculty for eleven years. He was Associate Dean for a year and retired in 2002.

His specialty were Banach rooms . He also worked a lot with Polish scientists, including 1972/73 as a Fulbright Fellow at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw . He also worked in applied research at the White Sands Missile Range and the Man Space Craft Center in Houston .

He was married to Bonnie Brown since 1958, whom he met when he had a summer job with the Army Corps of Engineers in Mississippi in 1957 .

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Howard Elton Lacey: The isometric theory of classical Banach spaces, Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften 208, Springer 1974