Mary Catherine Bishop Weiss

Mary Catherine Bishop Weiss (born December 11, 1930 in Wichita (Kansas) , Toronto , † October 8, 1966 ) was an American mathematician and university professor.

Life and research

Bishop was the daughter of math professor Albert T. Bishop, who last taught at Wichita State University and died in 1933. After graduating from elementary school, she moved to Chicago with her mother and brother Errett Albert Bishop , where she attended Laboratory School and then the University of Chicago College . During her studies she met the mathematician Guido Weiss and married him. In 1957 she did her doctorate with Antoni Zygmund . Her dissertation on trigonometric series was published in the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society , Volume 91 in 1959. The title was translated: The law of the iterated logarithm for Lacunary series and applications to Hardy-Littlewood series. She then taught at De Paul University in Chicago, Washington University in St. Louis , the University of Chicago, and Stanford University . She was a senior postdoctoral fellow with the National Science Foundation in Cambridge , England when she was appointed Professor of Mathematics at the University of Illinois at Chicago . Shortly after the start of lectures, she died at the age of 35. A symposium on harmonic analysis was held in her honor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale . During her short career, she has published 20 articles. She dealt with harmonic analysis and especially with incomplete (lacunar) trigonometric series and with Hardy spaces in higher dimensions.

Publications (selection)

1959: The Law of the Iterated Logarithm for Lacunary Trigonometric Series, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 91: 444-469

literature

Weiss, Guido: Mary Catherine Bishop Weiss, in Women of Mathematics: A Biobibliographic Sourcebook, Louise Grinstein and Paul Campbell, Editors, Greenwood Press, 1987, pp. 236-240
Zygmund, A .: Mary Weiss, Orthogonal Expansions and Their Continuous Analogues, Deborah Haimo, Editor, Southern Illinois University Press, 1968
Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie, Joy Dorothy Harvey: The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L – Z, 2003, ISBN 978-0415920384

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personal data
SURNAME	Bishop Weiss, Mary Catherine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bishop, Mary (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	December 11, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wichita (Kansas) , Toronto
DATE OF DEATH	October 8, 1966