Ray Kunze
Ray Alden Kunze (born March 7, 1928 in Des Moines , Iowa , † May 21, 2014 ) was an American mathematician who studied algebra.
Kunze studied at the University of Chicago with a bachelor's degree in 1950, a master's degree in 1951 and a doctorate under Irving Segal ( Fourier Transformations on Locally Compact Unimodular Groups). From 1954 he was a consultant at the Institute for Defense Analyzes . In 1960 he became an assistant professor at Brandeis University and in 1963 an associate professor and later professor at Washington University in St. Louis. From 1969 he was professor of mathematics at the University of California, Irvine , where he headed the mathematics faculty from 1969 to 1974. From the late 1980s he was a professor at the University of Georgia . He was a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .
He dealt with harmonic analysis and representation of Lie groups and wrote a well-known textbook on linear algebra with Kenneth Hoffman .
Fonts
- with Kenneth Hoffman: Linear Algebra, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall 1971
- with Irving Segal: Integrals and Operators, McGraw Hill 1968, 2nd edition, Springer Verlag 1978
literature
- Tuong-Ton That (editor) Representation Theory and Harmonic Analysis: a Conference in Honor of Ray A. Kunze, 12. – 14. January 1994, Cincinnati, Ohio , Contemporary Mathematics, AMS 1995
Individual evidence
- ^ Ray Alden Kunze: Obituary ( English ) In: Los Angeles Times . July 12, 2014. Retrieved February 6, 2017.
- ↑ Ray Kunze in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kunze, Ray |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kunze, Ray Alden (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Des Moines , Iowa |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 21, 2014 |