William Frederick Eberlein
William Frederick Eberlein (June 25, 1917, Shawano, Wisconsin – 1986, Rochester, New York) was an American mathematician, specializing in mathematical analysis and mathematical physics.
Life
Eberlein studied from 1936 to 1942 at the University of Wisconsin and at Harvard University, where he received in 1942 a PhD for the thesis Closure, Convexity, and Linearity in Banach Spaces under the direction of Marshall Stone.[1]
Work
Eberlein had academic positions at the Institute for Advanced Study (1947–1948), at the University of Wisconsin (1948–1955), at Wayne State University (1955–1956), and from 1957 at the University of Rochester, where he remained for the rest of his career.[2]
Contributions
He worked on functional analysis, harmonic analysis, ergodic theory, mean value theorems, and numerical integration. Eberlein also worked on spacetime models, internal symmetries in gauge theory, and spinors.[2] His name is attached to the Eberlein–Šmulian theorem in functional analysis[3] and the Eberlein compacta in topology.[4]
References
- ↑ William Frederick Eberlein at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- 1 2 A Guide to the W. F. Eberlein Papers, 1936–1986, Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin, retrieved 2014-06-19.
- ↑ Conway, John B. (1990), A Course in Functional Analysis, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 96, Springer, p. 163, ISBN 9780387972459.
- ↑ Arhangel'skii, A. V. (2003), "Eberlein compacta", in Hart, K. P.; Nagata, Jun-iti; Vaughan, J. E., Encyclopedia of General Topology, Elsevier, pp. 145–146, ISBN 9780080530864.