Jacob T. Schwartz
Jacob Theodore Schwartz , also Jack Schwartz , (born January 9, 1930 in New York City , † March 2, 2009 in Manhattan ) was an American mathematician and computer scientist .
Life
Jacob T. Schwartz studied mathematics at Yale University , received his doctorate there in 1952 with the dissertation Linear Elliptic Differential Operators under Nelson Dunford and was appointed assistant professor the following year. In 1957 he moved to New York University , where he became a professor in 1958. In 1960 he became a Sloan Research Fellow .
Schwartz also turned to computer science. He was involved in the then new field of parallel programming and dedicated himself particularly to the design of the shared memory architecture , which resulted in a collaboration with IBM , among other things ; he also works on programming languages , robotics and multimedia . His research interests also focused on spectral theory , Von Neumann algebras (his textbook W * -Algebras , ISBN 0-677-00670-5 was published in 1967 ) and the mathematics of quantum field theory .
Schwartz has co-edited several journals including Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics , Advances in Applied Mathematics , Journal of Programming Languages , Discrete and Computational Geometry , Computers and Mathematics with Applications, and Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought .
Together with Nelson Dunford, he received the prestigious Leroy P. Steele Prize of the American Mathematical Society in 1981 for their three-volume work Linear Operators , which was published by Wiley in 1958, 1963 and 1971 :
- Dunford, Schwartz: Linear Operators, Part I, General Theory. ISBN 0-471-60848-3 .
- Dunford, Schwartz: Linear Operators, Part II, Spectral Theory. ISBN 0-471-60847-5 .
- Dunford, Schwartz: Linear Operators, Part III, Spectral Operators. ISBN 0-471-60846-7 .
In 1976 Schwartz was elected to the National Academy of Sciences , 1984 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and 2000 to the National Academy of Engineering .
literature
- Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 28 (1981), pp. 510-511
- Sal Anastasio (Ed.), In memory of Jacob Schwartz, Notices AMS, Volume 62, 2015, No. 5, pdf, 11.1 MB
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schwartz, Jacob T. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schwartz, Jack |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 2, 2009 |
| Place of death | Manhattan |