__NOTOC__
Lynn Harold Loomis (25 April 1915 – 9 June 1994) was an American mathematician working on analysis. Together with
Hassler Whitney
Hassler Whitney (March 23, 1907 – May 10, 1989) was an American mathematician. He was one of the founders of singularity theory, and did foundational work in manifolds, embeddings, immersions, characteristic classes, and geometric integratio ...
, he discovered the
Loomis–Whitney inequality.
Loomis received his PhD in 1942 from
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 ...
under
Salomon Bochner
Salomon Bochner (20 August 1899 – 2 May 1982) was an Austrian mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis, probability theory and differential geometry.
Life
He was born into a Jewish family in Podgórze (near Kraków), then Aus ...
with thesis ''Some Studies on Simply-Connected Riemann Surfaces: I. The Problem of Imbedding II. Mapping on the Boundary for Two Classes of Surfaces''. After completing his PhD, Loomis was a professor at
Radcliffe College and from 1949 at Harvard. From 1956, he was a member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, a ...
.
Selected works
Articles
*
*
*
*
*
*with
Hassler Whitney
Hassler Whitney (March 23, 1907 – May 10, 1989) was an American mathematician. He was one of the founders of singularity theory, and did foundational work in manifolds, embeddings, immersions, characteristic classes, and geometric integratio ...
:
Books
*''Introduction to Abstract Harmonic Analysis'', Van Nostrand 1953
*with
Shlomo Sternberg Advanced Calculus', Addison-Wesley 1968 (revised 1990, Jones and Bartlett; reprinted 2014, World Scientific)
]
*''Introduction to Calculus'', Addison-Wesley 1975
*''Calculus'', Addison-Wesley 1974, 1982
Notes
External links
*
Harvard University alumni
1915 births
1994 deaths
20th-century American mathematicians
Harvard University faculty
Radcliffe College faculty
{{US-mathematician-stub