Arthur John "Jack" Lohwater (October 20, 1922 - June 10, 1982) was an American mathematician. He obtained a

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(1951), on the dissertation ''The Boundary Values of a Class of Analytic Functions'', advised by

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. Later he joined the faculty at

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and

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. He was editor of

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(1962–65). With Norman Steenrod and Sydney Gould he established important ties with Russian mathematicians, beginning with conferences in

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(1956, 58) and resulting in a dictionary. Lohwater died after a long battle with lung cancer. He was married to the mathematician Marjorie White Lohwater (1925–2007).

Books

*''Русско-английский словарь математических терминов. (Russian-English Dictionary of the Mathematical Sciences)'' (

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, 1961). The inverse was published by

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(1961). *''The theory of cluster sets'' (

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, 1966). With

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. *''Global Differentiable Dynamics'', Proceedings of the Conference Held at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, June 2–6, 1969. With

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and Roger C. McCann (editors)

Translations

Publications

* * * * * *''Mathematics in the Soviet Union'', in

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17 May 1957: 974-978 * * *''The boundary behaviour of

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s'', in Itogi Nauki i Techniki, Mat. Anal., 10:99-259, 1973 *
"Introduction to Inequalities"
1982 (unpublished, reproduced with permission of Marjorie Lohwater) used in the "Introduction to Inequalities" course taught by Lohwater.

Awards

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1955 (mathematics)fellowlist of 1955

References

20th-century American mathematicians University of Rochester alumni University of Michigan faculty Case Western Reserve University faculty 1922 births 1982 deaths {{US-mathematician-stub