Theophil Henry Hildebrandt

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Theophil Henry Hildebrandt (born July 24, 1888 in Dover , Ohio , † October 9, 1980 in Ann Arbor , Michigan ) was an American mathematician who dealt with analysis .

Hildebrandt studied at the University of Illinois ( Bachelor's degree in 1905) and at the University of Chicago ( Master's degree in 1906 and doctorate with Eliakim Hastings Moore in 1910 on the subject of A Contribution to the Foundations of Frechet's Calcul Fonctionnel ). From 1909 he taught at the University of Michigan , where he also received a full professorship in 1923. From 1934 until his retirement in 1957, he headed the mathematics faculty there.

Hildebrandt dealt with functional analysis , integration theory and integral equations . His PhD students include John Wehausen and Ralph Phillips .

In 1929 he received the Chauvenet Prize for his work The Borel Theorem and Its Generalizations . He was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , Vice President of the Mathematical Association of America in 1946, and President of the American Mathematical Society in 1945/46 .

In his spare time, he played organ in his ward church after graduating from the University of Michigan in 1912 with an organ degree. He had been married to Dora E. Ware since 1921 and had four children.

Fonts

  • Introduction to the theory of integration. , Academic Press 1963
  • About complete linear transformations , Acta Math., Volume 51, 1928, pp. 311-318

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Theophil Henry Hildebrandt in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. ^ Bulletin American Math. Soc. Volume 32, 1926, pp. 423-474.
personal data
SURNAME Hildebrandt, Theophil Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Dover , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1980
Place of death Ann Arbor , Michigan