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American mathematician
Karel deLeeuw , or de Leeuw ((1930-02-20 ) February 20, 1930 – (1978-08-18 ) August 18, 1978), was a
mathematics professor at
Stanford University , specializing in
harmonic analysis and
functional analysis .
Life and career
Born in
Chicago, Illinois , he attended the
Illinois Institute of Technology and the
University of Chicago , earning a
B.S. degree in 1950. He stayed at Chicago to earn an
M.S. degree in mathematics in 1951, then went to
Princeton University , where he obtained a
Ph.D. degree in 1954.
[1] His thesis, titled "The relative cohomology structure of formations", was written under the direction of
Emil Artin .
[2]
After first teaching mathematics at
Dartmouth College and the
University of Wisconsin–Madison , he joined the
Stanford University faculty
[3] in 1957, becoming a full professor in 1966. During sabbaticals and leaves he also spent time at the
Institute for Advanced Study and at
Churchill College, Cambridge (where he was a
Fulbright Fellow ). He was also a Member-at-Large of the Council of the
American Mathematical Society .
[1]
Death and legacy
DeLeeuw was murdered by
Theodore Streleski , a Stanford doctoral student for 19 years, whom he briefly advised.
[4] DeLeeuw's widow Sita deLeeuw was critical of media coverage of the crime, saying, "The media, in their eagerness to give Streleski a forum, become themselves accomplices in the murder—giving Streleski what he wanted in the first place."
[5]
A memorial lecture series was established in 1978 by the Stanford Department of Mathematics to honor deLeeuw's memory.
[6]
[7]
Selected publications
deLeeuw, Karel (1966). "Calculus" (Document).
Harcourt, Brace .
[8]
Rudin, Walter ; de Leeuw, Karel (1958).
"Extreme points and extremum problems in H 1 " . Pacific Journal of Mathematics . 8 (3): 467–485.
doi :
10.2140/pjm.1958.8.467 .
de Leeuw, Karel (1965). "On L p multipliers".
Annals of Mathematics . Second Series. 81 (2). The Annals of Mathematics, Vol. 81, No. 2: 364–379.
doi :
10.2307/1970621 .
JSTOR
1970621 .
de Leeuw, Karel (1975).
"An harmonic analysis for operators. I. Formal properties" . Illinois J. Math . 19 (4): 593–606.
doi :
10.1215/ijm/1256050668 .
ISSN
0019-2082 .
de Leeuw, Karel (1977).
"An harmonic analysis for operators. II. Operators on Hilbert space and analytic operators" . Illinois J. Math . 21 (1): 164–175.
doi :
10.1215/ijm/1256049511 .
ISSN
0019-2082 .
de Leeuw, Karel; Yitzhak Katznelson;
Jean-Pierre Kahane (1977). "Sur les coefficients de Fourier des fonctions continues". Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série A et B . 285 (16): A1001–A1003.
ISSN
0997-4482 .
References
^
a
b
"Memorial resolution: Karel deLeeuw (1930 – 1978)" (PDF) . Stanford University. Archived from
the original (PDF) on February 5, 2012. Retrieved May 7, 2013 .
^
"Karel DeLeeuw - the Mathematics Genealogy Project" .
^ Duren, Peter L., ed. (1989).
A century of mathematics in America: Part II . American Mathematical Society. p. 270.
ISBN
0-8218-0130-9 . Retrieved May 7, 2013 .
^
"American Notes Crime - Unrepentant about Murder" .
TIME Magazine . September 23, 1985.
^
"Widow of Slain Professor Speaks Out" .
Los Angeles Times . October 5, 1985.
^
"Karel deLeeuw Memorial Lecture: "On the Mathematics of Genomic Imprinting" " (PDF) . Stanford University. November 13, 2008. Retrieved May 7, 2013 . [
permanent dead link ]
^
"Karel deLeeuw Memorial Lecture: "Archimedes' Hydrostatics and the Birth of Mathematical Physics" " (PDF) . Stanford University. June 6, 2012. Archived from
the original (PDF) on 2012-07-14. Retrieved May 7, 2013 .
^ Dorner, George C. (1968-01-01). "Review of Calculus". The Mathematics Teacher . 61 (8): 804–805.
JSTOR
27958003 .
External links
International National Academics