Robert Edmund Edwards
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Robert Edmund Edwards (1926–2000),[1][2][3] usually cited simply as R. E. Edwards, was a British-born Australian mathematician who specialized in functional analysis. He is the author of several volumes in Springer's Graduate Texts in Mathematics.
He received his PhD at Birkbeck College, University of London in 1951 under Lionel Cooper. His dissertation topic was Theory of Normed Rings, and Translations in Function Spaces.[4] He continued to teach there as a lecturer until 1959, and then spent a few years at Manchester, before migrating to Australia in 1961, where he worked at the Institute of Advanced Studies at ANU as a professorial fellow (1961-1970) and professor of mathematics (1970-1978).
Selected publications
- Functional Analysis: Theory and Applications. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1965; revised edition Dover Publications, 1995; ISBN 0-486-68143-2.[5]
- with Garth Ian Gaudry: Littlewood-Paley and multiplier theory. Springer-Verlag, Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete, vol. 90, 1977.[6] 2012 pbk reprint
- A Formal Background to Mathematics: Volume 1, Logic, Sets and Numbers. Springer-Verlag, 1979; ISBN 978-0-387-90431-3.[7]
- A Formal Background to Mathematics: Volume 2, A Critical Approach to Elementary Analysis. Springer-Verlag, 1980; ISBN 978-0-387-90513-6.[7]
- Graduate Texts in Mathematics: Fourier Series, A Modern Introduction. Volumes 1 and 2. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1967; 2nd edition, Springer-Verlag, 1982; ISBN 978-1-4613-8158-7.
- Integration and Harmonic Analysis on Compact Groups. Cambridge University Press, 1972; ISBN 978-0-521-09717-8.
References
- ^ Encyclopedia of Australian Science
- ^ Obituary of Edwards' student Garth Ian Gaudry
- ^ National Library of Australia
- ^ "Robert Edmund Edwards". The Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
- ^ Berg, Michael (21 April 2012). "Review of Functional Analysis: Theory and Applications (1995 revised edition) by R. E. Edwards". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
- ^ Coifman, R. R.; Weiss, Guido (1978). "Book Review: Littlewood-Paley and multiplier theory by R. E. Edwards and G. I. Gaudry". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 84 (2): 242–250. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1978-14464-4. ISSN 0002-9904.
- ^ a b Griffiths, H. B. (1981). "Book Review: A formal background to mathematics". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 5 (3): 354–359. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1981-14956-9. ISSN 0273-0979.
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