- Andrew Gleason
Andrew Mattei Gleason (born November 4, 1921 in Fresno,
California , U.S.) is an Americanmathematician and the eponym ofGleason's theorem . He graduated fromYale University in 1942, and subsequently joined theUnited States Navy , where he was part of a team responsible for breakingJapan ese codes duringWorld War II . He was appointed a Junior Fellow at Harvard in 1946, and later joined the faculty there where he was the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Philosophy. He had the rare distinction among Harvard professors of having never obtained a doctorate. He retired in 1992. He is well-known for his work onHilbert's fifth problem . [ [http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1996/05.09/SymposiumWillCe.html Note on symposium celebrating Gleason] ] [ [http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Gleason.html Andrew Mattei Gleason] biography at MacTutor]Selected publications
* One-parameter subgroups and Hilbert's fifth problem, pp. 451–452, vol. 2, "Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1950" (pub. Providence, Rhode Island: American Mathematical Society, 1952.)
* Measures on the closed subspaces of a Hilbert space, "Journal of Mathematics and Mechanics" 6 (1957), pp. 885–893.
* Projective topological spaces, "Illinois Journal of Mathematics" 2 (1958), pp. 482–489.
* "Fundamentals of abstract analysis", Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1966; corrected reprint, Boston: Jones and Bartlett, 1991.References
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