Lynn Harold Loomis (April 25, 1915 – June 9, 1994) was an American mathematician working on analysis. Together with
Hassler Whitney, he discovered the
Loomis–Whitney inequality.
Loomis received his PhD in 1942 from
Harvard University under
Salomon Bochner 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.[1]
Introduction to Abstract Harmonic Analysis, Van Nostrand 1953[2]
with
Shlomo SternbergAdvanced Calculus, Addison-Wesley 1968 (revised 1990, Jones and Bartlett; reprinted 2014, World Scientific)[3] [a challenging text for (first-year) undergraduate students treating calculus on Banach spaces and differentiable manifolds; see
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