Peter Fillmore

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Peter Arthur Fillmore (born October 28, 1936 in Moncton ) is a Canadian mathematician who studies operator algebras .

Fillmore studied at Dalhousie University with a bachelor's degree in 1957 and at the University of Minnesota with a master's degree in 1960 and his doctorate in 1962 with Bjarni Jónsson ( The dimension theory of certain cardinal algebras ). As a post-doctoral student he was an instructor at the University of Chicago until 1964 and he was an assistant professor from 1964 and then a professor at Indiana University . In 1970/71 he was visiting professor at the University of Toronto . From 1972 he was at Dalhousie University, where he initially held a research professorship and from 1976 a professorship. From 1987 to 1991 he headed the mathematics faculty. His name is associated with the BDF theory named after the first letters of the mathematicians Brown , Douglas and Fillmore .

In 1977 he was visiting professor at the University of Edinburgh , 1984/85 at MSRI , 1990 visiting professor at the University of Copenhagen and in 1994 at the Fields Institute .

From 1973 to 1975 he was Vice President and 1994 to 1996 President of the Canadian Mathematical Society . He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 1976 . He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

Fillmore has been married since 1963 and has three children.

His PhD students include Nigel Higson , James Deddens and Masoud Khalkhali .

Fonts

  • A user's guide to operator algebras, Wiley 1996
  • Notes on operator theory, Van Nostrand 1970
  • Editor with James Mingo: Operator algebras and their applications, American Mathematical Society, 2 volumes, 1997, 1998
  • with Lawrence G. Brown , Ronald G. Douglas Extensions of C * -algebras and K-homology , Annals of Mathematics, Volume 105, 1977, pp. 265-324 (Brown-Douglas-Fillmore theory)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Rosenberg Brown-Douglas-Fillmore Theory , Encyclopedia of Mathematics
personal data
SURNAME Fillmore, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fillmore, Peter Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Moncton