Theophil Henry Hildebrandt
Theophil Henry Hildebrandt | |
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Born | (1888-07-24)24 July 1888 Dover, Ohio, US |
Died | 9 October 1980(1980-10-09) (aged 92) Ann Arbor, Michigan, US |
Spouse | Dora E. Ware (married 1921) |
Children | 4 |
Awards | Chauvenet Prize (1929)[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | mathematician |
Institutions | University of Michigan |
Thesis | A Contribution to the Foundations of Fréchet's Calcul Fonctionnel (1910) |
Doctoral advisor | Eliakim Hastings Moore |
Doctoral students | Ralph Saul Phillips Charles Earl Rickart John V. Wehausen |
Theophil Henry Hildebrandt (24 July 1888 – 9 October 1980) was an American mathematician who did research on functional analysis and integration theory.[2]
Hildebrandt was born in Dover, Ohio, graduated from high school at age 14 and at age 17 in 1905 received his bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois. As a graduate student at the University of Chicago he earned his master's degree in 1906 and his PhD in 1910, with thesis A Contribution to the Foundations of Fréchet's Calcul Fonctionnel written under the direction of E. H. Moore.[3] He became an instructor at the University of Michigan in 1909 and then a full professor in 1923, serving as chair of the mathematics department from 1934 until his retirement in 1957. His doctoral students include Ralph S. Phillips, Charles Earl Rickart, and John V. Wehausen.[3]
In 1929 Hildebrandt received the Chauvenet Prize for his 1926 expository article The Borel theorem and its generalizations.[1] He served two years, 1945 and 1946, as president of the American Mathematical Society. The U. of Michigan established in 1962 in his honor the T. H. Hildebrandt Research Instructorships, which were changed in 1974 to assistant professorships.
Hildebrandt, as an instructor at the U. of Michigan, enrolled in the School of Music and earned a degree in music with a major in organ. He played the organ in his local church. He married Dora E. Ware in 1921, and they had four children.[4]
He died, aged 92, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Selected publications
- T. H. Hildebrandt (1923). "On uniform limitedness of sets of functional operations". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 29 (7): 309–315. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1923-03730-0. MR 1560736.
- T. H. Hildebrandt (1928). "Über vollstetige linear Transformationen". Acta Mathematica. 51 (1): 311–318. doi:10.1007/bf02545664. MR 1555265.
References
- ^ a b Hildebrandt, T. H. (1926). "The Borel Theorem and Its Generalizations". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 32 (5): 423–474. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1926-04238-5.
- ^ AMS Presidents: A Timeline, Theophil Henry Hildebrandt
- ^ a b Theophil Henry Hildebrandt at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Theophil Henry Hildebrandt | Faculty History Project
External links
- Theophil Henry Hildebrandt at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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- 1925 G. A. Bliss
- 1929 T. H. Hildebrandt
- 1932 G. H. Hardy
- 1935 Dunham Jackson
- 1938 G. T. Whyburn
- 1941 Saunders Mac Lane
- 1944 R. H. Cameron
- 1947 Paul Halmos
- 1950 Mark Kac
- 1953 E. J. McShane
- 1956 Richard H. Bruck
- 1960 Cornelius Lanczos
- 1963 Philip J. Davis
- 1964 Leon Henkin
- 1965 Jack K. Hale and Joseph P. LaSalle
- 1967 Guido Weiss
- 1968 Mark Kac
- 1970 Shiing-Shen Chern
- 1971 Norman Levinson
- 1972 François Trèves
- 1973 Carl D. Olds
- 1974 Peter D. Lax
- 1975 Martin Davis and Reuben Hersh
- 1976 Lawrence Zalcman
- 1977 W. Gilbert Strang
- 1978 Shreeram S. Abhyankar
- 1979 Neil J. A. Sloane
- 1980 Heinz Bauer
- 1981 Kenneth I. Gross
- 1982 No award given.
- 1983 No award given.
- 1984 R. Arthur Knoebel
- 1985 Carl Pomerance
- 1986 George Miel
- 1987 James H. Wilkinson
- 1988 Stephen Smale
- 1989 Jacob Korevaar
- 1990 David Allen Hoffman
- 1991 W. B. Raymond Lickorish and Kenneth C. Millett
- 1992 Steven G. Krantz
- 1993 David H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein and Peter B. Borwein
- 1994 Barry Mazur
- 1995 Donald G. Saari
- 1996 Joan Birman
- 1997 Tom Hawkins
- 1998 Alan Edelman and Eric Kostlan
- 1999 Michael I. Rosen
- 2000 Don Zagier
- 2001 Carolyn S. Gordon and David L. Webb
- 2002 Ellen Gethner, Stan Wagon, and Brian Wick
- 2003 Thomas C. Hales
- 2004 Edward B. Burger
- 2005 John Stillwell
- 2006 Florian Pfender & Günter M. Ziegler
- 2007 Andrew J. Simoson
- 2008 Andrew Granville
- 2009 Harold P. Boas
- 2010 Brian J. McCartin
- 2011 Bjorn Poonen
- 2012 Dennis DeTurck, Herman Gluck, Daniel Pomerleano & David Shea Vela-Vick
- 2013 Robert Ghrist
- 2014 Ravi Vakil
- 2015 Dana Mackenzie
- 2016 Susan H. Marshall & Donald R. Smith
- 2017 Mark Schilling
- 2018 Daniel J. Velleman
- 2019 Tom Leinster
- 2020 Vladimir Pozdnyakov & J. Michael Steele
- 2021 Travis Kowalski
- 2022 William Dunham, Ezra Brown & Matthew Crawford
- 2023 Kimmo Eriksson & Jonas Eliasson
- 2024 Jeffrey Whitmer