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David Edmunds’ mathematical work. (English) Zbl 1246.01023

Brown, B. Malcolm (ed.) et al., Spectral theory, function spaces and inequalities. New techniques and recent trends. Dedicated to David Edmund and Des Evans to their 80th and 70th birthdays. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-0348-0262-8/hbk; 978-3-0348-0263-5/ebook). Operator Theory: Advances and Applications 219, ix-x (2012).
Summary: David Edmunds has influenced and made major contributions to numerous branches of mathematics. These include spectral theory, functional analysis, approximation theory, the theory of function spaces, operator theory, ordinary and partial differential equations. The breadth of his impact is demonstrated by his publication record, which consists of 5 books and more than 190 research papers, and by his winning the LMS Pólya prize in 1996 and the Bolzano Medal of the Czech Academy of Sciences, in 1998. He was awarded the Ph.D. degree by the University of Wales in 1955, having been supervised by R. M. Morris. After some years working for EMI Electronics on guided missiles, he held positions of Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer at the University of Wales, Cardiff, leaving in 1966 to take up a Readership at the University of Sussex. He was awarded a Personal Chair there in 1970 and is still affiliated to Sussex as well as additionally being appointed Honorary Professor, School of Mathematics, Cardiff University, 2004.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1227.00040].

MSC:

01A70 Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies

Biographic References:

Edmunds, David
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