Joseph Lawrence Taylor (7 April 1941 - 28 July 2016) was an American mathematician, specializing in

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s and non-commutative harmonic analysis.homepage for Joe Taylor at the University of Utah
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Education and career

Taylor received from

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in 1963 his bachelor's degree and in 1964 his Ph.D. under Pasquale Porcelli with thesis ''The structure of convolution measure algebras''. From 1964 to 1965 he was a Benjamin Peirce Instructor at

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. He became in 1965 an assistant professor and in 1971 a full professor at the

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. In 1974 he was an

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, Canada. In 1975 he received for his article ''Measure algebras'' the

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. At the University of Utah, Taylor was from 1979 to 1982 the chair of the mathematics department, from 1985 to 1987 the dean of the College of Science, and from 1987 to 1990 the vice-president of Academic Affairs.

Selected publications

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References

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