Gerald Folland

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Gerald Folland
Born (1947-06-04) June 4, 1947 (age 75)
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Alma mater Princeton University
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions University of Washington
Doctoral advisor Joseph Kohn

Gerald Budge Folland is an American mathematician and a professor of mathematics at the University of Washington. He is the author of several textbooks on mathematical analysis. His areas of interest include harmonic analysis (on both Euclidean space and Lie groups), differential equations, and mathematical physics. The title of his doctoral dissertation at Princeton University (1971) is "The Tangential Cauchy-Riemann Complex on Spheres".

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In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. [1]

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References

  1. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-12-29.
  2. Satzer, William J. (1 October 2009). "Review of A Guide to Advanced Real Analysis by Gerald B. Folland". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
  3. Berg, Michael (9 October 2008). "Review of Quantum Field Theory: A Tourist Guide for Mathematicians by Gerald B. Folland". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
  4. Guillemin, V. (1990). "Review: Harmonic analysis in phase space, by Gerald Folland". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 22 (2): 335–338. doi: 10.1090/s0273-0979-1990-15902-6 .
  5. Goodman, Roe (1983). "Review: Spaces on homogeneous groups, by G. B. Folland and E. M. Stein". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 8 (3): 505–507. doi: 10.1090/s0273-0979-1983-15141-8 .

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