Sheldon Axler
Sheldon Jay Axler (born November 6, 1949 in Philadelphia ) is an American mathematician .
Axler went to school in Miami and studied at Princeton University , where he received his bachelor's degree in mathematics with top marks in 1971 . He received his PhD in 1975 from the University of California, Berkeley , under Donald Sarason ( Subalgebras of ). As a post-graduate student , he was a Moore Instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He taught as a professor at Michigan State University before becoming Professor and Head of the Mathematics Faculty at San Francisco State University in 1997 . From 2002 he was Dean of the College of Science and Engineering.
He is known for various textbooks and school books, in particular his linear algebra textbook, which is widely used in the USA, whereby he tries to avoid determinants in teaching.
In 2012 he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society . In 1996 he received the Lester Randolph Ford Award for Down with Determinants .
Axler was an associate editor of the American Mathematical Monthly and was editor of the Mathematical Intelligencer .
Fonts
- with Paul Bourdon, Wade Ramey: Harmonic function theory , 2nd edition, Springer Verlag, Graduate Texts in Mathematics 2001
- Linear Algebra Done Right , Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer Verlag, 2nd edition 1997, 12th reprint 2009
- with John E. McCarthy, Donald Sarason (Editors): Holomorphic Spaces , Cambridge University Press, 1998
- Precalculus: A Prelude to Calculus , Wiley, 2009
- with Peter Rosenthal, Donald Sarason (editor): A Glimpse at Hilbert Space Operators , Birkhäuser, 2010
- College Algebra , Wiley, 2011
- Algebra & Trigonometry , Wiley, 2011
Web links
- Literature by and about Sheldon Axler in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage
- biography
- Author profile in the database zbMATH
Individual evidence
- ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Axler: Down with Determinants , 1994, pdf
- ↑ American Mathematical Monthly, Volume 102, 1995, pp. 139-154
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Axler, Sheldon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Axler, Sheldon Jay |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 6, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia |