John Williams Calkin
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American mathematician
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- PhD Mathematics Princeton University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Williams Calkin was an American mathematician, specializing in functional analysis. The Calkin algebra is named after him. Biography Calkin received his bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 1933 and his master's degree in 1934 and Ph.D. in 1937 from Harvard University. His doctoral dissertation Applications of the Theory of Hilbert Space to Partial Differential Equations; the Self-Adjoint Transformations in Hilbert Space Associated with a Formal Partial Differential Operator of the Second Order and Elliptic Type working with Oswald Veblen and von Neumann
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- Two-Sided Ideals and Congruences in the Ring of Bounded Operators in Hilbert Space (1941) (308)
- Abstract symmetric boundary conditions (1939) (101)
- Functions of several variables and absolute continuity, I (1940) (59)
- General Self-Adjoint Boundary Conditions for Certain Partial Differential Operators. (1939) (12)
- Symmetric transformations in Hilbert space (1940) (11)
- Abstract Self-Adjoint Boundary Conditions. (1938) (5)
- Abstract Definite Boundary Value Problems. (1940) (0)
- An elaboration of the Schrodinger formalism with applications to nuclear physics (1949) (0)
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