Jim Agler

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Jim Agler is a mathematician who is an emeritus professor at the University of California, San Diego. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society since 2016, for "contributions to operator theory and the theory of analytic functions of several complex variables". [1]

He obtained his Ph.D. from the Indiana University Bloomington in 1980 under the supervision of John B. Conway. [2] His thesis was on Sub-Jordan operators.

Agler and John E. McCarthy are the authors of the book Pick Interpolation and Hilbert Function Spaces (American Mathematical Society, 2002). [3]

Some efforts to extend the Herglotz representation theorem are described in Classical function theory, Operator Dilation Theory, and Machine Computations on Multiply-Connected Domains. [4]

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References

  1. "List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". ams.org. Retrieved 2016-05-22.
  2. Jim Agler at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. "Pick Interpolation and Hilbert Function Spaces | European Mathematical Society".
  4. Jim Agler, John Harland, and Benjamin J. Raphael (2008) Classical Function Theory, Operator Dilation Theory, and Machine Computations on Multiply-Connected Domains, Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society #892, ISSN   0065-9266