Sheldon Jay Axler(born November 6, 1949,Philadelphia) is an American mathematician and textbook author. He is a professor of mathematics and the Dean of the College of Science and Engineering atSan Francisco State University.
He graduated fromMiami Palmetto Senior High SchoolinMiami,Floridain 1967. He obtained his AB in mathematics with highest honors atPrinceton University(1971) and hisPhDin mathematics, under professorDonald Sarason,from theUniversity of California, Berkeley,with the dissertation "Subalgebras of"in 1975. As a postdoc, he was aC. L. E. Moore instructorat theMassachusetts Institute of Technology.
He taught for many years and became a full professor atMichigan State University.In 1997, Axler moved toSan Francisco State University,where he became the chair of the Mathematics Department.
Axler received theLester R. Ford Awardfor expository writing in 1996 from theMathematical Association of Americafor a paper titled "Down with Determinants!" in which he shows how one can teach or learn linear algebra without the use ofdeterminants.[1]Axler later wrote a textbook,Linear Algebra Done Right(4th ed. 2024), to the same effect.
In 2012, he became a fellow of theAmerican Mathematical Society.[2]He was an Associate Editor of theAmerican Mathematical Monthlyand the Editor-in-Chief of theMathematical Intelligencer.
Books
edit- Linear Algebra Done Right,fourth edition,Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics,Springer, 2024.
- (with John E. McCarthy, and Donald Sarason) editors.Holomorphic Spaces,Cambridge University Press1998.
- (with Paul Bourdon, and Wade Ramey)Harmonic Function Theory,second edition,Graduate Texts in Mathematics,Springer, 2001.
- Harmonic Function Theory software,aMathematicapackage for symbolic manipulation ofharmonic functions,version 7.00, released 1 January 2009 (previous versions released in 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2008).
- Precalculus: A Prelude to Calculus,Wiley, 2009 (third printing, 2010).
- (withPeter Rosenthaland Donald Sarason) editors.A Glimpse at Hilbert Space Operators,Birkhäuser,2010.
- College Algebra,John Wiley & Sons2011.
- Algebra & Trigonometry,John Wiley & Sons, January 2011.
- Measure, Integration & Real Analysis(open access, updated 2020), Springer, November 2019.
References
edit- ^Axler, Sheldon (1995)."Down with determinants!".Amer. Math. Monthly.102(2): 139–154.doi:10.2307/2975348.JSTOR2975348.
- ^List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society,Retrieved November 3, 2012.
External links
edit- Axler's Home Page
- Sheldon Axlerat theMathematics Genealogy Project
- College of Science & Engineering Newsletterfrom San Francisco State University.
- Senior Fellow Sheldon AxlerfromCalifornia Council on Science and Technology.
- Author profilein the databasezbMATH