Robert C. James
Robert Clarke James , often cited as Robert C. James or RC James, (born July 30, 1918 in Bloomington , Indiana , † June 28, 2003 ) was an American mathematician who dealt with functional analysis .
biography
James received his PhD in 1946 with Aristotle Demetrius Michal at the California Institute of Technology (Orthogonality in normed linear spaces). He then spent a year as a Benjamin Peirce Fellow at Harvard University , then professor at Haverford College . In 1962/63 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study . He was then founding director of the Mathematics Institute at Harvey Mudd College and the Mathematics Faculty at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California .
James constructed important counterexamples in the theory of Banach spaces ( James space 1951, James Baum space, etc.), characterized reflexivity for Banach spaces with an unconditional shudder basis, and proved James's compactness criterion named after him .
With his father Glenn James (1882-1961), a professor at UCLA who was known as the editor of Mathematics Magazine , he wrote a mathematics dictionary.
He is an honorary doctor of Kent State University , a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Federation of American Scientists .
Fonts
- with Glenn James: Mathematics Dictionary. 5th edition, Chapman and Hall 1992. The first edition (assisted by Robert James) appeared in 1942, the first edition by van Nostrand in 1949, later Edwin F. Beckenbach also played a key role in the publication
- RC James: A Non-Reflexive Banach Space Isometric With Its Second Conjugate Space. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . Volume 37, Number 3, March 1951, pp. 174-177, PMID 16588998 , PMC 1063327 (free full text).
- Bases in Banach spaces. In: American Mathematical Monthly. Volume 89, 1982, pp. 625-640
- Structure of Banach spaces: Radon-Nikodym and other properties. In: F. McAuley, MM Rao (Editor): General Topology and Modern Analysis. Academic Press 1981, p. 347
literature
- Joe Platt and Robin and Lori Ives: Robert James, Founding Mathematics Chair. MUDDmath, Harvey Mudd College, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2005 , page 14 (obituaries)
Web links
- Robert C. James on the Prabook.org website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Robert C. James , US Social Security Death Directory (SSDI), accessed October 1, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | James, Robert C. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | James, Robert Clarke (full name); James, RC |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bloomington , Indiana |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 28, 2003 |