John Joseph Benedetto (born July 16, 1939) is a Professor of
Mathematics
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at the
University of Maryland, College Park
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and is a leading researcher in
wavelet
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analysis and Director of the
Norbert Wiener Center for Harmonic Analysis and Applications
The Norbert Wiener Center for Harmonic Analysis and Applications (NWC) is a division of the Mathematics Department in the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences devoted to research and education in pure and ...
. He was named Distinguished Scholar-Teacher by the University of Maryland in 1999 and has directed 63 Ph.D students. The volum
Harmonic Analysis and Applications: In Honor of John Benedetto edited by Christopher Heil, describes his influence:
John J. Benedetto has had a profound influence not only on the direction of harmonic analysis and its applications, but also on the entire community of people involved in the field.
He was a Senior Fulbright-Hays Scholar (1973–1974), and was awarded the 2011
SPIE
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Wavelet Pioneer award. He is also a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and a SIAM Fellow.
Education
Benedetto attended
Boston College
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, graduating in 1960 with a B.A. in Mathematics. He received an M.A. from
Harvard University
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in 1962, and a Ph.D. from the
University of Toronto
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in 1964. He was the first student to receive a Ph.D. from then 37-year-old
Chandler Davis
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. His dissertation was ''The Laplace Transform of Generalized Functions''.
Garrett Birkhoff
Garrett Birkhoff (January 19, 1911 – November 22, 1996) was an American mathematician. He is best known for his work in lattice theory.
The mathematician George Birkhoff (1884–1944) was his father.
Life
The son of the mathematician Geo ...
was the thesis advisor of Chandler Davis, and Birkhoff did not have a Ph.D. but was a member of the Society of Fellows at Harvard.
Publications
Benedetto is founding Editor-in-Chief of th
Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications founded in 1994 and published by Springer-Birkhäuser. He is also founding and current editor of the Springer-Birkhäuse
''Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis''book series. He has edited or authored 18 books and published over 185 research papers. Some of his books are the following.
Books
* (1971
Harmonic Analysis on Totally Disconnected Sets, Springer Lecture Notes 202* (1975
Spectral Synthesis, Academic Pressref>
* (1976
Real Variable and Integration with Historical Notes, Teubner Publishers* (1977) A Mathematical Approach to Mathematics Appreciation, UMD
* (1979
Euclidean Harmonic Analysis, editor, Springer Lecture Notes 779* (1994
Wavelets: Mathematics and Applications, co-edited with M. Frazier, CRC Press* (1997
Harmonic Analysis and Applications, CRC Press* (2001
Modern Sampling Theory: Mathematics and Applications, co-edited with P. Ferreira* (2004
Sampling, Wavelets, and Tomography, co-edited with A. Zayed* (2009
Integration and Modern Analysis, co-authored with Wojciech Czaja
References
External links
Norbert Wiener Center for Harmonic Analysis and ApplicationsHomepageMathematics genealogy projectJournal of Fourier Analysis and Applications''Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis''(C. Heil, editor) Birkhäuser, Boston, 2006.
''Mathematical Genealogy''
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Living people
1939 births
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences alumni
Harvard University alumni
University of Toronto alumni
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society