Nelson Dunford

Nelson Dunford
Born	December 12, 1906(1906-12-12) St. Louis, Missouri
Died	September 7, 1986(1986-09-07) (aged 79) Sarasota, Florida
Nationality	United States
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Yale University
Alma mater	Brown University
Doctoral advisor	Jacob Tamarkin
Doctoral students	Shaul Foguel Robert Fullerton Jacob T. Schwartz Bertram Yood
Notable awards	Leroy P. Steele Prize (1981)

Nelson 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).

Publications

• Nelson Dunford, Jacob T. Schwartz, Linear Operators, Part I General Theory ISBN 0-471-60848-3, Part II Spectral Theory, Self Adjoint Operators in Hilbert Space ISBN 0-471-60847-5, Part III Spectral Operators ISBN 0-471-60846-7

References

• Obituary in Notices Amer. Math. Soc., Vol. 34, 1987, p. 287

External links

• Nelson Dunford at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

Persondata
Name	Dunford, Nelson
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Date of birth	December 12, 1906
Place of birth	St. Louis, Missouri
Date of death	September 7, 1986
Place of death	Sarasota, Florida