Robert Edmund Edwards (1926–2000), usually cited simply as R. E. Edwards, was a British-born Australian
mathematician
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History
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who specialized in
functional analysis
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.
He is the author of several volumes in Springer's
Graduate Texts in Mathematics
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.
He received his PhD at
Birkbeck College, University of London
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in 1951 under
Lionel Cooper. His dissertation topic was ''Theory of Normed Rings, and Translations in Function Spaces''. He continued to teach there as a lecturer until 1959, and then spent a few years at
Manchester
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, before migrating to Australia in 1961, where he worked at the Institute of Advanced Studies at
ANU
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as a professorial fellow (1961-1970) and professor of mathematics (1970-1978).
Selected publications
*''Functional Analysis: Theory and Applications.'' Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1965; revised edition Dover Publications, 1995; .
*with Garth Ian Gaudry: ''Littlewood-Paley and multiplier theory''. Springer-Verlag, Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete, vol. 90, 1977.
[2012 pbk reprint]
*''A Formal Background to Mathematics: Volume 1, Logic, Sets and Numbers''. Springer-Verlag, 1979; .[
*''Graduate Texts in Mathematics: Fourier Series, A Modern Introduction''. Volumes 1 and 2. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1967; 2nd edition, Springer-Verlag, 1982; .
*''Integration and Harmonic Analysis on Compact Groups''. Cambridge University Press, 1972; .
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References
Australian mathematicians
1926 births
2000 deaths
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