Nationality American Role Mathematician Institutions Yale University Fields Mathematics | Alma mater Brown University Doctoral advisor Jacob Tamarkin Name Nelson Dunford | |
Born December 12, 1906
St. Louis, Missouri ( 1906-12-12 ) Doctoral students Shaul Foguel
Robert Fullerton
Jacob T. Schwartz
Bertram Yood Died September 7, 1986, Sarasota, Florida, United States Notable awards Leroy P. Steele Prize (1981) Books Linear operators, Linear Operators Set, Linear Operators, Spectral Theory, Self Adjoint Operators in Hilbert Space Education Brown University, University of Chicago | ||
Nelson James Dunford (December 12, 1906 – September 7, 1986) was an American mathematician, known for his work in functional analysis, namely integration of vector valued functions, ergodic theory, and linear operators. The Dunford decomposition, Dunford–Pettis property, and Dunford-Schwartz theorem bear his name.
He studied mathematics at the University of Chicago and obtained his Ph.D. in 1936 at Brown University under Jacob Tamarkin. He moved in 1939 to Yale University, where he remained until his retirement in 1960.
In 1981, he was awarded jointly with Jacob T. Schwartz, his Ph.D. student, the well-known Leroy P. Steele Prize of the American Mathematical Society for the three volume work Linear operators.
Nelson Dunford was coeditor of Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (1941–1945) and Mathematical Surveys and Monographs (1945–1949).