Nelson Dunford
Nelson Dunford (born December 12, 1906 in St. Louis , Missouri , † September 7, 1986 in Sarasota , Florida ) was an American mathematician .
Nelson Dunford studied mathematics at the University of Chicago and received his PhD from Brown University in 1938 under JD Tamarkin . There he was a lecturer for a year, then moved to Yale University , where he was appointed professor in 1943 and stayed until his retirement in 1960.
His main area of work was functional analysis , in particular vector-valued integration, ergodic theory and linear operators . The Dunford-Pettis property is associated with his name.
Together with Jacob T. Schwartz , he received the prestigious Leroy P. Steele Prize of the American Mathematical Society in 1981 for their three-volume work Linear Operators , which was published by Wiley in 1958, 1963 and 1971 :
- Dunford, Schwartz: Linear Operators, Part I, General Theory. ISBN 0-471-60848-3 .
- Dunford, Schwartz: Linear Operators, Part II, Spectral Theory. ISBN 0-471-60847-5 .
- Dunford, Schwartz: Linear Operators, Part III, Spectral Operators. ISBN 0-471-60846-7 .
Nelson Dunford was co-editor of the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (1941-1945) and the Mathematical Surveys (1945-1949).
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- Obituary in Notices Amer. Math. Soc., Vol. 34, 1987, p. 287.
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| SURNAME | Dunford, Nelson |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Louis , Missouri |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 7, 1986 |
| Place of death | Sarasota , Florida |