William Beckner (mathematician)

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William Beckner
Born (1941-09-15) September 15, 1941 (age 84)
Kirksville, Missouri, US
Alma mater Princeton University
University of Missouri (Columbia)
Known forSharp Inequalities
Babenko–Beckner inequality
Awards Salem Prize (1975)
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions University of Texas, Austin
Princeton University
University of Chicago
Doctoral advisor Elias Stein
Doctoral students Emanuel Carneiro

William Beckner (born September 15, 1941) is an American mathematician, known for his work in harmonic analysis, especially geometric inequalities. He is the Paul V. Montgomery Centennial Memorial Professor in Mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin.

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Education

Beckner earned his Bachelor of Science in physics from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri in 1963, where he became a member of Phi Beta Kappa society. He later earned his Ph.D. in mathematics at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, where his doctoral adviser was Elias Stein. He also completed some postgraduate work in mathematics under adviser A.P. Calderon at the University of Chicago.

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References

  1. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Archived 2018-08-25 at the Wayback Machine , retrieved 2012-11-10.
  2. ↑ Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians Helsinki 1978 (PDF). Academia Scientiarum Fennica. 1980. pp. 18, 22. ISBN   951-41-0352-1 . Retrieved 19 November 2025.
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