Edgar Lorch
Edgar Lorch | |
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| Born | July 22, 1907 Nyon, Switzerland |
| Died | March 5, 1990 (aged 82) Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Columbia University |
| Thesis | Elementary Transformations (1933) |
| Doctoral advisor | Joseph Ritt |
| Doctoral students | Hing Tong Al Goodman Edward Blum Fritz Steinhardt Leonard Gillman Alan Hoffman Fred Linton Barnett Glickfield Daniel Kocan, Jr. Phyllis Strauss Paul Meyer Julian Hennefeld Paul Fuhrmann Ralph Gellar David Hsieh Eric Braude John Jayne Kevin Broughan Thomas Lupo |
Edgar Raymond Lorch (July 22, 1907 – March 5, 1990) was a Swiss American mathematician. Described by The New York Times as "a leader in the development of modern mathematics theory", he was a professor of mathematics at Columbia University. He contributed to the fields general topology, especially metrizable and Baire spaces, group theory of permutation groups and functional analysis, especially spectral theory, convexity in Hilbert spaces and normed rings.