Karel de Leeuw
Karel de Leeuw , also Karel deLeeuw , (born February 20, 1930 in Chicago , Illinois , † August 18, 1978 in Stanford , California ) was an American mathematician who dealt with analysis .
Life
Karel de Leeuw studied physics and engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology and at the University of Chicago , where he switched to mathematics with a master's degree in 1951. He studied with Emil Artin in 1954 with the dissertation " The Relative Cohomology Theory of Finite Groups and Algebraic Number Theory "from Princeton University . He taught from 1953 as an instructor at Dartmouth College and the University of Wisconsin – Madison , before he went in 1957 as an assistant professor at Stanford University , where he received a full professorship in 1966. De Leeuw was chairman of the Graduate Study Committee at Stanford, responsible for doctoral students in the broadest sense, and a successful and popular academic teacher. For example, he developed a course for students who are weak in mathematics and dealt with learning psychology .
In 1978 he was murdered with a hammer by a mentally disturbed long-term student at Stanford who, in his own words, felt degraded and discriminated against. The perpetrator turned himself in and was subsequently sentenced to seven years in prison.
De Leeuw dealt mainly with abstract harmonic analysis and functional analysis , the theorem of Bishop-de Leeuw is associated with his name. He also wrote an analysis textbook.
He was visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study and as a Fulbright Fellow at Cambridge University . He was also on the Council of the American Mathematical Society . A series of lectures at Stanford University commemorates him.
Fonts
- Calculus, Harcourt, Brace 1966
- with Walter Rudin : Extreme points and extremum problems in H1, Pacific Journal of Mathematics, Volume 8, 1958, pp. 467-485.
- On multipliers, Annals of Mathematics, Volume 81, 1970, pp. 364-379.
- An harmonic analysis for operators, 2 parts, Illinois J. Math., Vol. 19, 1975, pp. 593-606, Vol. 21, 1977, pp. 164-175.
- with Yitzhak Katznelson , Jean-Pierre Kahane : Sur les coefficients de Fourier des fonctions continues, Compte Rendu Acad. Sci., Series Math., Vol. 285, 1977, pp. A1001-A1003.
Web links
- On the De Leeuw murder , Stanford Daily, September 25, 1978
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karel de Leeuw in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leeuw, Karel de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | deLeeuw, Karel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 18, 1978 |
| Place of death | Stanford , California |