John Wermer

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John Wermer (born April 4, 1927 in Vienna ) is an American mathematician who deals with analysis.

Life

Wermer received his doctorate in 1951 under George Mackey at Harvard University (On the Harmonic Analysis of Certain Groups and Semi-Groups of Operators). He is a professor emeritus at Brown University .

In 1956/57 and 1967/68 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study .

He deals with harmonic analysis, several complex variables, operator and function algebras, and approximation theory. He worked with Lars Hörmander , among others .

In 1962 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm (Maximal ideal spaces). In the same year he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1963/64 he was a Sloan Research Fellow . In 1973 he became a foreign member of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala . In 1962 he became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

Fonts

  • Seminar on Functionalgebras, Springer, Lecturenotes in Mathematics 1, 1964 (lectures at ETH Zurich, winter semester 1963/64)
  • with Thomas Banchoff : Linear Algebra through geometry, Springer, Undergraduate texts in mathematics, 2nd edition, 1992
  • Banach algebras and several complex variables, Springer, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 2nd edition 1976
  • Potential Theory, Springer, Lecturenotes in Mathematics 408, 1974
  • Function rings and Riemann surfaces, Annals of Mathematics, Volume 67, 1958, pp. 44-71
  • The hull of a curve in , Annals of Mathematics, Volume 68, 1958, pp. 550-561
  • Dirichlet Algebras, Duke Math. J., Volume 27, 1960, pp. 373-382
  • with Hörmander: Uniform approximation on compact sets in , Math. Scand., Volume 23, 1968

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dates of birth according to the IAS 1980 membership book
  2. ↑ John Wermer in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Wermer, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna