Nationality United States Education Harvard University Name Joseph Walsh | Alma mater Harvard University Institutions Harvard University Fields Mathematics | |
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Born September 21, 1895
Washington, D. C. ( 1895-09-21 ) Doctoral students Joseph Leo Doob
Maurice Heins
Donald J. Newman
Edward Saff
Richard S. Varga Known for Walsh function
Walsh code
Walsh matrix Died December 6, 1973, College Park, Maryland, United States Doctoral advisor Maxime Bocher, George David Birkhoff Books The Location of Critical P, A Rigorous Treatment of Maxim, Selected Papers, Interpolation and Approxim Similar People Maxime Bocher, George David Birkhoff, Joseph L Doob, Garrett Birkhoff | ||
Joseph Leonard "Joe" Walsh (September 21, 1895 – December 6, 1973) was an American mathematician who worked mainly in the field of analysis. The Walsh function and the Walsh–Hadamard code are named after him. The Grace–Walsh–Szegő coincidence theorem is important in the study of the location of the zeros of multivariate polynomials.
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He became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1936 and served 1949–51 as president of the American Mathematical Society. Altogether he published 279 articles (research and others) and seven books, and advised 31 PhD students.
For most of his professional career he studied and worked at Harvard University. He received a B.S. in 1916 and a PhD in 1920. The Advisor of his PhD was Maxime Bôcher. He started to work as lecturer in Harvard afterwards and became a full professor in 1935. With two different scholarships he was able to study in Paris under Paul Montel (1920–21) and in Munich under Constantin Carathéodory (1925–26). From 1937 to 1942 he served as chairman of his department at Harvard. During World War II he served as an officer in the US navy and was promoted to captain right after end of the war. After his retirement from Harvard in 1966 he accepted a position at the University of Maryland where he continued to work up to a few months before his death.