Robert T. Seeley

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Robert Thomas Seeley (born February 26, 1932 in Bryn Mawr , † November 30, 2016 in Newton (Massachusetts) ) was an American mathematician who dealt with analysis .

Seeley studied at Haverford College (Bachelor 1953) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he received his doctorate in 1958 under Alberto Calderon ( Singular integrals on compact manifolds ). He was then from 1958 to 1961 at Harvey Mudd College as an instructor and later as an assistant professor and from 1963 assistant professor at Brandeis University , where he received a full professorship in 1967. Since 1972, Seeley was Professor of Mathematics at the University of Massachusetts in Boston.

He dealt among other things with pseudo differential operators and the Atiyah-Singer index theorem .

In 1970 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice ( Fractional powers of boundary problems ). From 1965 to 1967 he was a Sloan Research Fellow . He was a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

Seeley was married and had four children.

Fonts

  • Introduction to Fourier series and integrals, Benjamin 1966
  • Calculus of one variable, Glenview, Illinois, Scott / Foresman 1968
  • Calculus of several variables, Glenview, Illinois, Scott / Foresman 1970
  • Calculus of one and several variables, Glenview, Illinois 1973
  • Calculus, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich 1990
  • Integro-differential operators on vector bundles, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 117, 1965, pp. 167-204 (Seeley Algebra)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ life data according to Pamela Kalte u. a. (Ed.) American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2005
  2. ↑ Robert T. Seeley in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / name used
personal data
SURNAME Seeley, Robert T.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seeley, Robert Thomas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 2016
Place of death Newton (Massachusetts)