Mathematician:Marshall Harvey Stone

Mathematician
American mathematician who contributed to real analysis, functional analysis, and the study of boolean algebras.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: 8 April 1903, New York, USA
 * Died: 9 Jan 1989, Madras, India

Theorems and Definitions

 * Glivenko-Stone Theorem (with )
 * Stone Space
 * Stone-Weierstrass Theorem (with )
 * Stone's Representation Theorem for Boolean Algebras
 * Stone's Theorem on one-parameter unitary groups
 * Stone-Čech Compactification Theory (with )
 * Stone-von Neumann Uniqueness Theorem (with )

Publications

 * 1924: An Unusual Type of Expansion Problem
 * 1926: A Comparison of the Series of Fourier and Birkhoff
 * 1926: Ordinary Linear Homogeneous Differential Equations of Order $n$ and the Related Expansion Problems
 * 1926: Developments in Legendre Polynomials
 * 1927: Developments in Hermite Polynomials
 * 1930: Linear Transformations in Hilbert Space III : Operational Methods and Group Theory
 * 1932: Linear Transformations in Hilbert Space and their Applications to Analysis
 * 1934: Boolean Algebras and their Applications to Topology
 * 1934: Subsumption of Boolean Algebras under the Theory of Rings
 * 1956: Mathematics and the Future of Science (lecture)