Walter Rudin

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Walter Rudin (born May 2, 1921 in Vienna ; † May 20, 2010 ) was an American mathematician who dealt with analysis .

Life

Rudin came from an old Austrian Jewish family. His great-grandfather was a match manufacturer and was ennobled, his father Robert Pollak-Rudin was an electrical engineer. After the Anschluss in 1938, he was excluded from school and fled to France via Switzerland. In 1940 Rudin fled to England, where he served in the Navy . After the war he went to the USA in 1945. He received his PhD in 1949 from Duke University with John Gergen (Uniqueness theory of Laplace Series) . He was then a Moore instructor at MIT , at the University of Rochester and finally from 1959 professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison , where he retired in 1991 and was most recently professor emeritus . In 1956 he became a Sloan Research Fellow .

Rudin dealt among other things with harmonic analysis and the theory of the complex functions of several variables. In the United States, he is best known for his widely available analysis textbooks: Principles of Mathematical Analysis (known as "Baby Rudin") and Real and Complex Analysis (known as "Big Rudin"). For this he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize in 1993 . In 2005 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna . In 1970 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice ( Harmonic analysis in polydiscs ) and in 1962 in Stockholm ( The extension problem for positive definite functions ).

Since 1953 he was married to the mathematician Mary Ellen Rudin , née Estill, who was also a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1971, specializing in general topology. He had four children with her. The couple lived in Madison , Wisconsin, in a house built by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1957 .

Fonts

  • Principles of Mathematical Analysis . 1953, 2nd edition, McGraw Hill 1964, German "Analysis", 3rd edition, Oldenbourg Verlag 2005.
  • Real and Complex Analysis . 1966, 2nd edition, McGraw Hill 1974, 3rd edition 1987, German "Real and complex analysis", Oldenbourg Verlag 1999.
  • Functional Analysis . 2nd edition, McGraw Hill 1991.
  • Fourier Analysis on Groups . New York, Interscience 1962, Wiley 1990.
  • Function Theory in Polydiscs , Benjamin 1969.
  • Function Theory in the Unit Ball of . Springer 1980.
  • The Way I Remember It , American Mathematical Society 1997 (autobiography)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Past Fellows. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, accessed June 2, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Rudin, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 2010