Walter Rudin
Walter Rudin | |
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Born | Austria | May 2, 1921
Died | May 20, 2010 Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. | (aged 89)
Citizenship | United States |
Alma mater | Duke University (B.A. 1947, Ph.D. 1949) |
Known for | Mathematics textbooks; contributions to harmonic analysis and complex analysis[1] |
Spouse | Mary Ellen Rudin |
Awards | American Mathematical Society Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition (1993) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Doctoral advisor | John Jay Gergen |
Doctoral students | Charles Dunkl Daniel Rider |
Walter Rudin (May 2, 1921 – May 20, 2010[2]) was an Austrian-American mathematician and professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[3]
In addition to his contributions to complex and harmonic analysis, Rudin was known for his mathematical analysis textbooks: Principles of Mathematical Analysis,[4] Real and Complex Analysis,[5] and Functional Analysis.[6] Rudin wrote Principles of Mathematical Analysis only two years after obtaining his Ph.D. from Duke University, while he was a C. L. E. Moore Instructor at MIT. Principles, acclaimed for its elegance and clarity,[7] has since become a standard textbook for introductory real analysis courses in the United States.[8]
Rudin's analysis textbooks have also been influential in mathematical education worldwide, having been translated into 13 languages, including Russian,[9] Chinese,[10] and Spanish.[11]
Biography
Rudin was born into a
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In 1970 Rudin was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice.[13] He was awarded the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition in 1993 for authorship of the now classic analysis texts, Principles of Mathematical Analysis and Real and Complex Analysis. He received an honorary degree from the University of Vienna in 2006.
In 1953, he married fellow mathematician Mary Ellen Estill, known for her work in set-theoretic topology. The two resided in Madison, Wisconsin, in the eponymous Walter Rudin House, a home designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. They had four children.[1]
Rudin died on May 20, 2010, after suffering from Parkinson's disease.[2]
Selected publications
- Ph.D. thesis
- Rudin, Walter (1950). Uniqueness Theory for Laplace Series (Thesis). Duke University.[14]
- Selected research articles
- Rudin, Walter (1950). "Uniqueness theory for Laplace series". Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 68 (2): 287–303. MR 0033368.
- Rudin, W. (1957). "Factorization in the group algebra of the real line". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 43 (4): 339–340. PMID 16578475.
- Rudin, Walter (1967). "Zero-sets in polydiscs". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 73 (4): 580–583. MR 0210934.
- Rudin, Walter (1981). "Holomorphic maps that extend to automorphisms of a ball" (PDF). Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 81 (3): 429–432. MR 0597656.
- "Totally real Klein bottles in "(PDF)". Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 82 (4): 653–654. 1981. MR 0614897.
- Books
Textbooks:
- Principles of Mathematical Analysis.[7][8] (1953; 3rd ed., 1976, 342 pp.)
- Real and Complex Analysis.[15] (1966; 3rd ed., 1987, 416 pp.)
- Rudin, Walter (1991). Functional Analysis. International Series in Pure and Applied Mathematics. Vol. 8 (Second ed.). New York, NY: OCLC 21163277.
- Functional Analysis.[16] (1973; 2nd ed., 1991, 424 pp.)
Monographs:
- Rudin, Walter; Bers, L.; Courant, R.; Stoker, J. J.; Henney, Dagmar Renate (1964). "Fourier Analysis on Groups". Physics Today. 17 (1): 82. (1962)
- Function Theory in Polydiscs. (1969)
- Function Theory in the Unit Ball of .[18] (1980)
Autobiography:
- Rudin, Walter (1997). The Way I Remember It. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-0633-3.
Major awards
- Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition(1993)
See also
References
- ^ a b "Vilas Professor Emeritus Walter Rudin died after a long illness on May 20, 2010".
- ^ a b c Ziff, Deborah (May 21, 2010). "Noted UW-Madison mathematician Rudin dies at 89". Wisconsin State Journal. Retrieved May 21, 2010.
- doi:10.1090/noti955.
- ISBN 007054235X.
- ISBN 0070542341.
- ISBN 0-07-100944-2.
- ^ ISSN 0002-9904.
- ^ a b Locascio, Andrew (13 August 2007). "Book Review: Principles of Mathematical Analysis". Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
- ^ Rudin, Walter (1976). Principles of Mathematical Analysis. Translated by Havin, V. P. (Russian translation of 2nd ed.). Moscow: Mir Publishers.
- ISBN 7-111-13417-6.
- ISBN 968-6046-82-8.
- ISBN 9780821872550.
- ^ Rudin, Walter. "Harmonic analysis in polydiscs." Actes Congr. Int. Math., Nice 2 (1970): 489–493.
- ISBN 9781461445647.
- .
- JSTOR 27844041.
- .
- ^ Krantz, Steven G. (1981-11-01). "Review: Walter Rudin, Function theory in the unit ball of ". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. New Series. 5 (3): 331–339. ISSN 0273-0979.
External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Walter Rudin", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- UW Mathematics Dept obituary
- MathDL obituary
- Walter Rudin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Photos of Rudin Residence
- Walter B. Rudin, "Set Theory: An Offspring of Analysis" (1990 Morris Marden Lecture) – YouTube