Nicholas Young (mathematician)

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Nicholas John Young is a British mathematician working in operator theory, functional analysis and several complex variables. He is a research professor at the University of Leeds. [1] Much of his work has been about the interaction of operator theory and function theory. [2]

Publications

Young has written more than a hundred papers, [3] over 30 of them in collaboration with Jim Agler. [4] [5] He is the author of the book An Introduction to Hilbert Space . [6]

His Ph.D. adviser was Vlastimil Pták, and he has had 5 Ph.D. students. [7]

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References

  1. "Faculty of Mathematics and Physical Sciences - Staff list". University of Leeds.
  2. Axler, Sheldon (1998). Holomorphic Spaces. Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications. ISBN   978-0-521-63193-8.
  3. "Publications of Nicholas Young" (PDF). University of Leeds. 17 March 2018. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  4. "Search Publications database". Americal Mathematical Society. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  5. MathSciNet
  6. Young, N. (21 July 1988). An Introduction to Hilbert Space. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   9780521337175.
  7. Mathematics Genealogy Project