Francis Joseph Murray

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Nationality American Education Columbia University Alma mater Columbia University Fields Mathematics		Name Francis Murray Doctoral advisor Bernard Koopman Role Mathematician
Born February 3, 1911 New York City ( 1911-02-03 ) Institutions Columbia University Duke University Doctoral students Walter Petryshyn Robert Ritt Judah Rosen Robert Schatten Brian Shelburne Ernst G. Straus Died March 15, 1996, Durham, North Carolina, United States People also search for Bernard Koopman, Kenneth Miller, Ernst G. Straus, Robert Schatten, Albert Einstein Books An introduction to linear tr, Existence Theorems for Ordina, Applied Mathematics: An Intelle

Francis Joseph Murray (February 3, 1911 – March 15, 1996) was a mathematician, known for his foundational work (with John von Neumann) on functional analysis, and what subsequently became known as von Neumann algebras. He received his PhD from Columbia University in 1936. He taught at Duke University.

In 1967 he was awarded the Outstanding Civilian Service Medal by the U. S. Army.

Selected publications

1936 (with J. von Neumann), "On rings of operators," Ann. of Math. 2(37): 116–229. The original paper on von Neumann algebras.

1937 (with J. von Neumann), "On rings of operators II," Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 41: 208–248.

1943 (with J. von Neumann), "On rings of operators IV," Ann. of Math. 2(44): 716–808.

1941. An Introduction to Linear Transformations in Hilbert Space. Annals of Mathematics Studies, no. 4. Princeton Univ. Press.

1947. The theory of mathematical machines. Columbia Univ. Press.

1954. (with Kenneth S. Miller). Existence Theorems for Ordinary Differential Equations. ISBN 0-88275-320-7; 2nd printing Krieger 1976; reprint Dover 2013.

1978. Applied Mathematics: An Intellectual Orientation. ISBN 0-306-39252-6

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