Nelson Dunford

Nelson Dunford
Born	(1906-12-12)December 12, 1906 St. Louis, Missouri,US
Died	September 7, 1986(1986-09-07)(aged 79) Sarasota, Florida,US
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Brown University
Awards	Leroy P. Steele Prize(1981)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Yale University
Doctoral advisor	Jacob Tamarkin
Doctoral students	Shaul Foguel Jacob T. Schwartz

Nelson James Dunford(December 12, 1906 – September 7, 1986) was an Americanmathematician,known for his work infunctional analysis,namelyintegration of vector valued functions,ergodic theory,andlinear operators.TheDunford decomposition,Dunford–Pettis property,andDunford-Schwartz theorembear his name.

He studied mathematics at theUniversity of Chicagoand obtained his Ph.D. in 1936 atBrown UniversityunderJacob Tamarkin.He moved in 1939 toYale University,where he remained until his retirement in 1960.

In 1981, he was awarded jointly withJacob T. Schwartz,his Ph.D. student, the well-knownLeroy P. Steele Prizeof theAmerican Mathematical Societyfor the three-volume workLinear Operators.

Nelson Dunford was coeditor ofTransactions of the American Mathematical Society(1941–1945) andMathematical Surveys and Monographs(1945–1949).

Publications

• Dunford, Nelson;Schwartz, Jacob T.(1988).Linear Operators.Pure and applied mathematics. Vol. 1. New York:Wiley-Interscience.ISBN978-0-471-60848-6.OCLC18412261.
• Nelson Dunford, Jacob T. Schwartz, Linear Operators, Part I General TheoryISBN0-471-60848-3,Part II Spectral Theory, Self Adjoint Operators in Hilbert SpaceISBN0-471-60847-5,Part III Spectral OperatorsISBN0-471-60846-7

References

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

External links

• Nelson Dunfordat theMathematics Genealogy Project