Sheldon Axler

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 at San Francisco State University.

He graduated from

, with the dissertation "Subalgebras of ${\displaystyle L^{\infty }}$" in 1975. As a postdoc, he was a

He taught for many years and became a full professor at Michigan State University. In 1997, Axler moved to San Francisco State University, where he became the chair of the Mathematics Department.

Axler received the

• Linear Algebra Done Right, fourth edition, Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer, 2024.
• (with John E. McCarthy, and Donald Sarason) editors. Holomorphic Spaces, Cambridge University Press 1998.
• (with Paul Bourdon, and Wade Ramey) Harmonic Function Theory, second edition, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer, 2001.
• Harmonic Function Theory software, a
  Mathematica package for symbolic manipulation of harmonic 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).
• (with Peter Rosenthal and Donald Sarason) editors. A Glimpse at Hilbert Space Operators, Birkhäuser, 2010.
• College Algebra,
  John Wiley & Sons
  2011.
• Algebra & Trigonometry, John Wiley & Sons, January 2011.
• Measure, Integration & Real Analysis (open access, updated 2020), Springer, November 2019.

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