Edgar Lorch
Edgar Raymond Lorch (July 22, 1907 – March 5, 1990) was a Swiss American mathematician. Described by The New York Times as "a leader in the development of modern mathematics theory", he was a professor of mathematics at Columbia University. He contributed to the fields general topology, especially metrizable and Baire spaces, group theory of permutation groups and functional analysis, especially spectral theory, convexity in Hilbert spaces and normed rings.
Edgar Lorch | |
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| Born | July 22, 1907 Nyon, Switzerland |
| Died | March 5, 1990 (aged 82) Manhattan, New York, USA |
| Nationality | Swiss American |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Columbia University |
| Thesis | Elementary Transformations (1933) |
| Doctoral advisor | Joseph Ritt |
| Doctoral students | Leonard Gillman Alan Hoffman Hing Tong Kevin Broughan |
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