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Peter Duren
Born
Peter Larkin Duren

(1935-04-30)April 30, 1935
DiedJuly 10, 2020(2020-07-10) (aged 85)
Alma materHarvard University (BA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
AwardsAmerican Mathematical Society (2012)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematical analysis
InstitutionsInstitute for Advanced Study
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Stanford University
University of Michigan
Thesis Spectral theory of a class of non-self-adjoint infinite matrix operators  (1960)
Doctoral advisorGian-Carlo Rota
Notable studentsTed Kaczynski

Peter Larkin Duren (April 30, 1935 – July 10, 2020)[1] was an American mathematician. He specialized in mathematical analysis and was known for the monographs and textbooks he has written.

Academic career

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Duren received in 1956 his bachelor's degree from Harvard University and in 1960 his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under Gian-Carlo Rota with thesis Spectral theory of a class of non-self-adjoint infinite matrix operators.[2] As a postdoc he was an instructor at Stanford University. At the University of Michigan, he became in 1962 an assistant professor, in 1966 an associate professor, in 1969 a professor, and in 2010 a professor emeritus. As a professor, Duren served on the thesis committee of Ted Kaczynski.[3]

Duren was in 1968/69 at the Institute for Advanced Study, in 1975 a visiting professor at the Technion in Haifa, in 1964/65 a visiting scientist at Imperial College and the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay, in 1982 a visiting professor at the University of Maryland and in 1982/83 at the Mittag-Leffler Institute, the University of Paris-Sud and at the ETH Zürich. In 1989 he was a visiting scientist at Stanford University, in 1993 at the University of Hawaii and in 1996 at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim. He has also been a visiting scientist in Halle, at the Max-Planck Institute in Leipzig, at the University of Witwatersrand, in Santiago de Chile, at the Autonomous University of Madrid, at Bar-Ilan University and the Academia Sinica in Beijing.

In 1976/77 he was chief editor of the Michigan Mathematical Journal. He was a co-editor of the American Mathematical Monthly and a festschrift for Frederick Gehring.

Duren's research and expository writing deals with function theory and functional analysis, including Hardy spaces, schlicht functions, harmonic analysis, geometric function theory, potential theory, and special functions.

Duren died on July 10, 2020, at the age of 85.[4]

Awards

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From 1964 to 1966, Duren was a Sloan Fellow. In 2012, he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Selected works

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References

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  1. ^ biographical information from American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Peter Duren at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ "Suspect A Genius In Mathematics Kaczynski Astounded Professors By Solving Problems They Couldn't Touch | The Spokesman-Review". www.spokesman.com. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
  4. ^ "Obituary: Peter Larkin Duren | The University Record". record.umich.edu. Retrieved 2024-09-30.
  5. ^ Rochberg, Richard (2005). "Review: Bergman spaces, by Peter Duren and Alex Schuster" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 42 (2): 251–256. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-05-01046-3.
  6. ^ Dauben, Joseph W. (Dec 1991). "Review: A century of mathematics in America, by Peter Duren; Richard A. Askey; Uta C. Hagen". Isis. 82 (4): 765–768. doi:10.1086/355991. JSTOR 233383.
  7. ^ Baernstein II, Albert (1985). "Review: Univalent functions, by Peter L. Duren" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 12 (1): 158–165. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1985-15330-3.
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