Charles Earl Rickart (1913 – 17 April 2002) was an American mathematician,
known for
Rickart spaces.
Rickart was born in
Osage City, Kansas
Osage City is a city in Osage County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 2,861.
History
Osage City was surveyed and platted in late 1869, after the route of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ...
, and earned his B.A. and M.A. from the
University of Kansas
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. In 1941 he received his PhD from the
University of Michigan
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under
Theophil Henry Hildebrandt with thesis ''Integration in a Convex Linear Topological Space''.
Rickart was for two years the Benjamin Pierce Instructor at
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...
. He joined the
Yale
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wor ...
mathematics faculty in 1943, served as chair of the department from 1959 to 1965, became the first Percey F. Smith Professor of Mathematics in 1963, and retired in 1983.
Rickart did research on
Banach algebra
In mathematics, especially functional analysis, a Banach algebra, named after Stefan Banach, is an associative algebra A over the real or complex numbers (or over a non-Archimedean complete normed field) that at the same time is also a Banach ...
s and was the author of three books. In the late 1950s and early 1960s he was one of the pioneers in introducing the "
new math" into American schools.
His doctoral students include
Samuel Merrill III.
He died in
North Branford, Connecticut
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where he lived, survived by his wife, Annabel Erickson Rickart, three sons, and four grandchildren.
Works
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See also
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Baer ring In abstract algebra and functional analysis, Baer rings, Baer *-rings, Rickart rings, Rickart *-rings, and AW*-algebras are various attempts to give an algebraic analogue of von Neumann algebras, using axioms about annihilators of various sets.
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References
External links
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1913 births
2002 deaths
20th-century American mathematicians
Mathematical analysts
People from Osage City, Kansas
University of Kansas alumni
University of Michigan alumni
Yale University faculty
Functional analysts
People from North Branford, Connecticut