Richard Friederich Arens
Richard Friederich Arens | |
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| Born | 24 April 1919 Iserlohn, Germany |
| Died | 3 May 2000 Los Angeles, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University University of California, Los Angeles |
| Awards | Putnam Fellow (1941)[2] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles |
Richard Friederich Arens (24 April 1919 – 3 May 2000) was an American
emigrated
to the United States in 1925.
Arens received his
Ph.D. in 1945 from Harvard University.[3] He was several times was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study (1945–46, 1946–47, and 1953–54).[4] He was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in 1950 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[5]
Arens worked in
UCLA for more than 40 years. He served on the editorial board of the Pacific Journal of Mathematics for 14 years 1965–1979. There are three topological spaces named for Arens in the book Counterexamples in Topology, including Arens–Fort space
.
Arens died in
Los Angeles, California
.
See also
References
- ^ A different person connected to the Richard Draper Pioneer Fund was mentioned in McWhorter, D., Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama - the climactic battle of the Civil Rights Revolution. Simon and Schuster (2001). p. 165.
- ^ "Putnam Competition Individual and Team Winners". Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved December 10, 2021.
- ^ Richard Friederich Arens at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Institute for Advanced Study: A Community of Scholars Archived 2013-01-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Arens, Richard F. "Operations induced in conjugate spaces." In Proc. Internat. Congr. of Math.(Cambridge, Mass., 1950), vol. 1, pp. 532–533. 1950.
External links
- Richard Friederich Arens at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Obituary (PDF) from the Pacific Journal of Mathematics
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