Leonidas Alaoglu
Leonidas Alaoglu (born March 19, 1914 in Red Deer , Alberta , † August 1981 ) was a Canadian mathematician who dealt with functional analysis .
Alaoglu was the son of Greek immigrants and studied at the University of Chicago with a bachelor's degree in 1936, a master's degree in 1937 and a doctorate under Lawrence M. Graves in 1938 (Weak topologies in normed linear spaces). He then taught at Pennsylvania State College , Harvard University and Purdue University . In 1944 he became an operations analyst with the US Air Force and from 1953 to 1981 he was a scientist at the Lockheed Corporation in Burbank, Los Angeles County , where he did operations research . Some of his work was secret. During his time in industry, however, he attended mathematical seminars at Caltech , in which a series of lectures under his name was donated after his death, at UCLA and the University of Southern California .
He is known for the Banach-Alaoglu theorem, which emerged from his dissertation.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leonidas Alaoglu in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ↑ Biography of Michael Lahanas ( Memento of the original from February 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Alaoglu, Leonidas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Red deer |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 1981 |