Mathematician:Walter Rudin

Mathematician
Austrian-born American mathematician best known for the widely-used college textbooks he wrote.

Nationality
Austrian-American

History

 * Born: 2 May 1921 in Vienna, Austria
 * 1938: Fled to France to escape Anschluss
 * 1940: Continued flight to Britain, served in British Army and Navy
 * 1945: Moved to United States
 * 1947: Earned B.A. from Duke University in North Carolina
 * 1949: Earned Ph.D. from Duke University in North Carolina
 * 1952: Began teaching at University of Rochester
 * 1953: Married
 * 1959: Joined University of Wisconsin-Madison as a professor
 * 1991: Retired, and wrote his autobiography
 * Died: 20 May 2010 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Theorems and Definitions

 * Rudin-Shapiro Polynomial (with ), also known as Shapiro Polynomial


 * Golay-Rudin-Shapiro Sequence (with and )

Publications

 * 1949: Uniqueness Theory for Laplace Series (PhD Thesis)
 * 1950: Integral representation of continuous functions
 * 1953: (affectionately known as Baby Rudin)
 * 1962: Fourier Analysis on Groups
 * 1964: (affectionately known as Baby Rudin)
 * 1966: (affectionately known as Big Rudin)
 * 1973: Functional Analysis
 * 1969: Function Theory in Polydiscs
 * 1980: Function Theory in the Unit Ball of $\C^n$
 * 1991: The Way I Remember It (autobiography)