Andrew Gleason
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Andrew Mattei Gleason (November 4, 1921 - October 17, 2008; born Fresno, California, U.S.) was an American mathematician and the eponym of Gleason's theorem. He graduated from Yale University in 1942, and subsequently joined the United States Navy, where he was part of a team responsible for breaking Japanese codes during World War II. He was appointed a Junior Fellow at Harvard in 1946, and later joined the faculty there where he was the Hollis Professor of Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy. He had the rare distinction among Harvard professors of having never obtained a doctorate. He retired in 1992. He is well-known for his work on Hilbert's fifth problem.[1][2][3]
[edit] Selected publications
- One-parameter subgroups and Hilbert's fifth problem, pp. 451–452, vol. 2, Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1950 (pub. Providence, Rhode Island: American Mathematical Society, 1952.)
- Measures on the closed subspaces of a Hilbert space, Journal of Mathematics and Mechanics 6 (1957), pp. 885–893.
- Projective topological spaces, Illinois Journal of Mathematics 2 (1958), pp. 482–489.
- Fundamentals of abstract analysis, Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1966; corrected reprint, Boston: Jones and Bartlett, 1991.
[edit] References
- ^ Note on symposium celebrating Gleason
- ^ Andrew Mattei Gleason biography at MacTutor
- ^ Obituary from the Boston Globe
[edit] External links
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