John Robert Ringrose (born 21 December 1932) is an English mathematician working on
operator algebras who introduced
nest algebra In functional analysis, a branch of mathematics, nest algebras are a class of operator algebras that generalise the upper-triangular matrix algebras to a Hilbert space
In mathematics, Hilbert spaces (named after David Hilbert) allow generalizin ...
s. He was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society
The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...
in 1977.
In 1962, Ringrose won the
Adams Prize.
Works
* with
: Fundamentals of the theory of operator algebras, 4 vols., Academic Press 1983, 1986, 1991, 1992 (2nd edn. American Mathematical Society 1997)
* Compact non self-adjoint operators, van Nostrand 1971
References
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English mathematicians
Fellows of the Royal Society
1932 births
Living people
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