Joel Smoller

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Joel Alan Smoller (2 January 1936 – 27 September 2017) was an American mathematician.

Joel Smoller was born in Brooklyn on 2 January 1936 to parents Benjamin, a taxicab driver, and Olga, who died when he was young. [1] [2] Smoller attended New York University, and completed his doctoral work at Purdue University in 1963, after which he taught at the University of Michigan. In 1970, he was appointed a full professor, and assumed the Lamberto Cesari Collegiate Professorship of Mathematics in 1998. [1] [2] He was editor of Transactions of the American Mathematical Society from 1981 to 1985, and later the Journal for Applicable Analysis. [3] Smoller was award a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1979, [4] the George David Birkhoff Prize in 2009, [1] and elected to fellowship of the American Mathematical Society in 2013, a member of its inaugural class of fellows. [5] Smoller retired in June 2017, and died, aged 81, on 27 September 2017. [1] [2] Following his death, the Joel Smoller Graduate Fellowship was established. [6]

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