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WalterRudin
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WalterRudin(May2,1921May20,2010)[2]wasanAmericanmathematicianand
professorofMathematicsattheUniversityofWisconsinMadison.[3]
Heisknownforthreebooksonmathematicalanalysis:PrinciplesofMathematicalAnalysis,
RealandComplexAnalysis,andFunctionalAnalysis.Thefirst(affectionatelyreferredtoas
"BabyRudin")waswrittenwhenRudinwasaMooreinstructoratMITforhis
undergraduateanalysiscourseandiswidelyusedasatextbookforundergraduatecoursesin
analysis.

Contents
1 Biography
2 Selectedpublications
3 Majorawards
4 Seealso

WalterRudin
Born

May2,1921
Vienna,Austria

Died

May20,2010(aged89)

Nationality American
Fields

Institutions ProfessorEmeritus,Universityof
WisconsinMadison
Almamater DukeUniversity(B.A.1947,Ph.D.
1949)
Doctoral
advisor

JohnJayGergen

Doctoral
students

CharlesDunkl

Knownfor Mathematicstextbookscontributions
toharmonicanalysisandcomplex
analysis[1]

5 References
6 Externallinks

Mathematics

Notable
awards

AmericanMathematicalSociety
LeroyP.SteelePrizefor
MathematicalExposition(1993)

Biography
RudinwasbornintoaJewishfamilyinAustriain1921.TheyfledtoFranceaftertheAnschlussin1938.WhenFrancesurrenderedto
Germanyin1940,RudinfledtoEnglandandservedintheBritishnavyfortherestofthewar.AfterthewarheleftfortheUnitedStates,and
earnedhisB.A.fromDukeUniversityinNorthCarolinain1947,andtwoyearslaterearnedaPh.D.fromthesameinstitution.Afterthathe
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wasaC.L.E.MooreinstructoratMIT,brieflytaughtintheUniversityofRochester,beforebecomingaprofessorattheUniversityof
WisconsinMadison.HeremainedattheUniversityfor32years.[2]Hisresearchinterestsrangedfromharmonicanalysistocomplexanalysis.
HereceivedanhonorarydegreefromtheUniversityofViennain2006.
In1953,hemarriedfellowmathematicianMaryEllenEstill.ThetworesidedinMadison,Wisconsin,intheeponymousWalterRudinHouse,
ahomedesignedbyarchitectFrankLloydWright.Theyhadfourchildren.[1]
RudindiedonMay20,2010aftersufferingfromParkinson'sdisease.[2]

Selectedpublications
Ph.D.thesis
Rudin,Walter(1950).UniquenessTheoryforLaplaceSeries(Thesis).DukeUniversity.[4]
Researcharticles
"UniquenesstheoryforLaplaceseries".Trans.Amer.Math.Soc.68(2):287303.1950.doi:10.1090/s00029947195000333681.
MR0033368.
"Factorizationinthegroupalgebraoftherealline".ProcNatlAcadSciUSA43(4):339340.1957.doi:10.1073/pnas.43.4.339.
PMC528447.
"Zerosetsinpolydiscs".Bull.Amer.Math.Soc.73(4):580583.1967.doi:10.1090/s000299041967117580.MR210934.
"Holomorphicmapsthatextendtoautomorphismsofaball"(PDF).Proc.Amer.Math.Soc.81(3):429432.1981.doi:10.1090/s0002
9939198105976568.MR597656.
"TotallyrealKleinbottlesin "(PDF).Proc.Amer.Math.Soc.82(4):653654.1981.doi:10.1090/s00029939198106148971.
MR614897.
Books
PrinciplesofMathematicalAnalysis.
RealandComplexAnalysis.[5]
FunctionalAnalysis.
FourierAnalysisonGroups.[6]
FunctionTheoryinPolydiscs.
FunctionTheoryintheUnitBallofCn.[7]
TheWayIRememberIt.1991.(Autobiography)
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Majorawards
SteelePrizeforMathematicalExposition(1993)

Seealso
HelsonKahaneKatznelsonRudinTheorem
RudinKeislerordering
RudinShapirosequence

References
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"VilasProfessorEmeritusWalterRudindiedafteralongillnessonMay20,2010".
Ziff,Deborah(May21,2010)."NotedUWMadisonmathematicianRudindiesat89".WisconsinStateJournal.RetrievedMay21,2010.
"RememberingWalterRudin(19212010)"(PDF).NoticesoftheAMS60(3):295301.2013.
Bilyk,DmitriyDeCarli,LauraPetukhov,AlexanderStokolos,AlexanderM.Wick,BrettD.,eds.(2012)."remarksonWalterRudin'sPhDthesis".
RecentAdvancesinHarmonicAnalysisandApplications:InHonorofKonstantinOskolkov.Vol.25.SpringerScience&BusinessMedia.p.59.
5. VictorL.Shapiro(1968)."Review:WalterRudin,Realandcomplexanalysis".Bull.Am.Math.Soc.74(1):7983.doi:10.1090/s000299041968
118816.
6. J.P.Kahane(1964)."Review:WalterRudin,Fourieranalysisongroups".Bull.Am.Math.Soc.70(2):230232.doi:10.1090/s000299041964
110922.
7. StevenG.Krantz(1981)."Review:WalterRudin,FunctiontheoryintheunitballofCn".Bull.Am.Math.Soc.(N.S.)5(3):331339.

Externallinks
O'Connor,JohnJ.Robertson,EdmundF.,"WalterRudin",MacTutorHistoryofMathematicsarchive,UniversityofStAndrews.
UWMathematicsDeptobituary(http://www.math.wisc.edu/oldhome/news/WRudinObit.html)
MathDLobituary(http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/?pa=mathNews&sa=view&newsId=866)
WalterRudin(http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=8419)attheMathematicsGenealogyProject
PhotosofRudinResidence(http://www.peterbeers.net/interests/flw_rt/Wisconsin/Rudin/Rudin.htm)
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