Kenneth I. Gross

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Kenneth I. Gross

Kenneth Irwin Gross (born October 14, 1938 in Malden , Massachusetts , † September 10, 2017 ) was an American mathematician .

Gross studied at Brandeis University with a bachelor's degree in 1960 and a master's degree in 1962. He received his doctorate in 1966 at Washington University under Ray Kunze ( Plancherel Transform of the Nilpotent Part of and Applications to the Representation Theory of ) From 1966 he was Assistant Professor at Tulane University and from 1968 to 1973 at Dartmouth College . In 1973 he became an associate professor and later professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From 1981 to 1985 he taught at the University of Wyoming , then was program director at the National Science Foundation and from 1989 he was a professor at the University of Vermont .

He was visiting professor at the University of California, Irvine (1972/73), 1977 at the University of Utah , 1979 at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan, 1988 at Drexel University and 1994 at Macquarie University in Australia.

He dealt with harmonic analysis and infinite dimensional representation theory of groups, analysis on Lie groups and homogeneous spaces, with applications in statistics, on special functions (such as Bessel functions) and in physics.

Since the 1990s he has also dealt with mathematics didactics in schools. He was director of the Vermont Mathematics Initiative and published extensive teaching material in this context. It is also used by the Intel Math Program.

In 1981 he received the Chauvenet Prize . In 1979 he received the Lester Randolph Ford Award . He was a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

Fonts

  • Editor: The mathematics of energy research, SIAM 1984
  • Harmonic Analysis, Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences, Routledge, 1994, Volume 1, pp. 395-418
  • Edited with D. Richards, P. Sally, T. Ton-That Representation theory and harmonic analysis , Contemporary Mathematics, Volume 191, American Mathematical Society 1995
  • Editor with R. Ewing, C. Martin: The Merging of Disciplines: New Directions in Pure, Applied, and Computational Mathematics, Springer Verlag 1986

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Obituary: Kenneth Irwin Gross, 1938-2017. In: Seven Days. September 12, 2017, accessed September 14, 2017 .
  3. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project . Published in Transactions Amer. Math. Soc. 132: 411-446 (1968)
  4. ↑ Vermont Mathematics Initiative ( Memento of May 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ For On the Evolution of Noncommutative Harmonic Analysis . In: American Mathematical Monthly. Volume 85, 1978, pp. 525-548
personal data
SURNAME Gross, Kenneth I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gross, Kenneth Irwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Malden, Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH 10th September 2017