Mathematician:Nelson James Dunford

Mathematician

American mathematician, known for his work in functional analysis, namely integration of vector valued functions, ergodic theory, and linear operators.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: December 12, 1906 in St. Louis, Missouri, US
• Died: September 7, 1986 in Sarasota, Florida, US

Theorems and Definitions

• Dunford Decomposition,

• Dunford-Schwartz Theorem (with Jacob Theodore Schwartz)
• Dunford-Pettis Property (with Billy James Pettis)

Results named for Nelson James Dunford can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Nelson James Dunford can be found here.

Publications

• 1956: Convergence almost everywhere of operator averages (Journal of Rational Mechanics and Analysis Vol. 5: pp. 129 – 178) (with Jacob T. Schwartz)

As coeditor

• Transactions of the American Mathematical Society ($\text {1941}$ – $\text {1945}$)
• Mathematical Surveys and Monographs ($\text {1945}$ – $\text {1949}$)