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Nationality
  
American

Fields
  
Mathematics

Doctoral advisor
  
Elias M. Stein

Name
  
William Beckner

Awards
  
Salem Prize

Role
  
Mathematician


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Born
  
September 15, 1941 (age 83) Kirksville, Missouri, USA (
1941-09-15
)

Institutions
  
University of Texas, AustinPrinceton UniversityUniversity of Chicago

Alma mater
  
Princeton UniversityUniversity of Missouri (Columbia)

Known for
  
Sharp InequalitiesBabenko–Beckner inequality

Education
  
University of Missouri, Princeton University

Notable awards
  
Salem Prize (1975)

William Beckner (born September 15, 1941) is an American mathematician, known for his work in harmonic analysis, especially geometric inequalities. He is the Paul V. Montgomery Centennial Memorial Professor in Mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin.

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Education

Beckner earned his Bachelor of Science in physics from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri in 1963, where he became a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He later earned his Ph.D. in mathematics at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, where his doctoral adviser was Elias Stein. He also completed some postgraduate work in mathematics under adviser A.P. Calderon at the University of Chicago.

Awards and honors

  • Salem Prize
  • Sloan Fellow
  • Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

    • Selected publications

  • Beckner, William (1975). "Inequalities in Fourier Analysis". Annals of Mathematics. 102 (1): 159–182. doi:10.2307/1970980. 
  • Beckner, William (1993). "Sharp Sobolev inequalities on the sphere and the Moser–Trudinger inequality". Annals of Mathematics. 138: 213–242. doi:10.2307/2946638. 
  • Beckner, William (1995). "Geometric inequalities in Fourier analysis". Essays on Fourier Analysis in Honor of Elias M. Stein. Princeton University Press. pp. 36–68. JSTOR j.ctt7ztk2g. 

    • References

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