Lawrence Zalcman
Lawrence Allen Zalcman | |
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Born | (1943-06-09)June 9, 1943 Kansas City, Missouri, US |
Died | May 31, 2022(2022-05-31) (aged 78) Jerusalem, Israel |
Nationality | American-Israeli |
Alma mater | Dartmouth College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Known for | Zalcman's Lemma, Zalcman domains, Zalcman functions, Pizzetti-Zalcman formula |
Awards | Chauvenet Prize (1976), Lester R. Ford Award (1975, 1981), Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award (2017) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Bar-Ilan University, University of Maryland, Stanford University |
Thesis | (1968) |
Doctoral advisor | Kenneth Myron Hoffman |
Lawrence Allen Zalcman (June 9, 1943 – May 31, 2022) was a professor (and later a professor emeritus) of Mathematics at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. His research primarily concerned Complex analysis, potential theory, and the relations of these ideas to approximation theory, harmonic analysis, integral geometry and partial differential equations.[1][2] On top of his scientific achievements, Zalcman received numerous awards for mathematical exposition, including the Chauvenet Prize[3] in 1976, the Lester R. Ford Award in 1975[3] and 1981,[4] and the Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award in 2017.[5] In addition to Bar-Ilan University, Zalcman taught at the University of Maryland and Stanford University in the United States.[6]
Life and career
Zalcman was born in Kansas City, Missouri on June 9, 1943.[6] In 1961, he graduated from Southwest High School in Kansas City, Missouri before continuing his education at Dartmouth College, where he would graduate in 1964.[6] Zalcman went on to receive his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968 under the supervision of Kenneth Myron Hoffman.[7] In 2012, Zalcman became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[8]
In the theory of normal families, Zalcman's Lemma, which he used as part of his treatment of Bloch's principle, is named after him.[9] Other eponymous honors are Zalcman domains, which play a role in the classification of Riemann surfaces, and Zalcman functions in complex dynamics. In the theory of partial differential equations, the Pizzetti-Zalcman formula is partially named after him.[10]
Lawrence Zalcman died in Jerusalem on May 31, 2022.[6]
Selected publications
- Analytic capacity and rational approximation. Springer Verlag. 1968. ISBN 9783540358251.
- with Peter Lax: Complex proofs of real theorems, American Mathematical Society 2012[11]
References
- ^ "Prof. Lawrence Zalcman". Bar-Ilan University – Department of Mathematics. Archived from the original on December 12, 2022. Retrieved December 13, 2022.
- ^ "Lawrence Zalcman 1943—2022". Journal d'Analyse Mathématique. 2022. doi:10.1007/s11854-022-0229-0.
- ^ a b Zalcman, Lawrence (1974). "Real Proofs of Complex Theorems (And Vice Versa)". The American Mathematical Monthly. 81 (2). Taylor & Francis: 115–137. doi:10.1080/00029890.1974.11993518. ISSN 0002-9890.
- ^ Zalcman, Lawrence (1980). "Offbeat Integral Geometry". The American Mathematical Monthly. 87 (3). Taylor & Francis: 161–175. doi:10.1080/00029890.1980.11994985. ISSN 0002-9890.
- ^ Lawrence Zalcman (2016). "A Tale of Three Theorems". The American Mathematical Monthly. 123 (7). Taylor & Francis: 643–656. doi:10.4169/amer.math.monthly.123.7.643. ISSN 0002-9890. S2CID 125789757.
- ^ a b c d Mark Agranovsky; Walter Bergweiler (October 28, 2022). "Lawrence Allen Zalcman 1943–2022". Computational Methods and Function Theory. 23. Springer Nature: 3–9. doi:10.1007/s40315-022-00470-4. S2CID 253217136. Retrieved December 13, 2022.
- ^ Lawrence Allen Zalcman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- ^ "Zalcman's Lemma". MathWorld.
- ^ Carroll, R. W.; Showalter, R. E. (1976). Singular and degenerate Cauchy problems. Academic Press. p. 96. ISBN 9780080956367.
- ^ Hendel, Russell Jay (May 7, 2012). "Review of Complex proofs of real theorems by Peter Lax and Lawrence Zalcman". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
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- 1925 G. A. Bliss
- 1929 T. H. Hildebrandt
- 1932 G. H. Hardy
- 1935 Dunham Jackson
- 1938 G. T. Whyburn
- 1941 Saunders Mac Lane
- 1944 R. H. Cameron
- 1947 Paul Halmos
- 1950 Mark Kac
- 1953 E. J. McShane
- 1956 Richard H. Bruck
- 1960 Cornelius Lanczos
- 1963 Philip J. Davis
- 1964 Leon Henkin
- 1965 Jack K. Hale and Joseph P. LaSalle
- 1967 Guido Weiss
- 1968 Mark Kac
- 1970 Shiing-Shen Chern
- 1971 Norman Levinson
- 1972 François Trèves
- 1973 Carl D. Olds
- 1974 Peter D. Lax
- 1975 Martin Davis and Reuben Hersh
- 1976 Lawrence Zalcman
- 1977 W. Gilbert Strang
- 1978 Shreeram S. Abhyankar
- 1979 Neil J. A. Sloane
- 1980 Heinz Bauer
- 1981 Kenneth I. Gross
- 1982 No award given.
- 1983 No award given.
- 1984 R. Arthur Knoebel
- 1985 Carl Pomerance
- 1986 George Miel
- 1987 James H. Wilkinson
- 1988 Stephen Smale
- 1989 Jacob Korevaar
- 1990 David Allen Hoffman
- 1991 W. B. Raymond Lickorish and Kenneth C. Millett
- 1992 Steven G. Krantz
- 1993 David H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein and Peter B. Borwein
- 1994 Barry Mazur
- 1995 Donald G. Saari
- 1996 Joan Birman
- 1997 Tom Hawkins
- 1998 Alan Edelman and Eric Kostlan
- 1999 Michael I. Rosen
- 2000 Don Zagier
- 2001 Carolyn S. Gordon and David L. Webb
- 2002 Ellen Gethner, Stan Wagon, and Brian Wick
- 2003 Thomas C. Hales
- 2004 Edward B. Burger
- 2005 John Stillwell
- 2006 Florian Pfender & Günter M. Ziegler
- 2007 Andrew J. Simoson
- 2008 Andrew Granville
- 2009 Harold P. Boas
- 2010 Brian J. McCartin
- 2011 Bjorn Poonen
- 2012 Dennis DeTurck, Herman Gluck, Daniel Pomerleano & David Shea Vela-Vick
- 2013 Robert Ghrist
- 2014 Ravi Vakil
- 2015 Dana Mackenzie
- 2016 Susan H. Marshall & Donald R. Smith
- 2017 Mark Schilling
- 2018 Daniel J. Velleman
- 2019 Tom Leinster
- 2020 Vladimir Pozdnyakov & J. Michael Steele
- 2021 Travis Kowalski
- 2022 William Dunham, Ezra Brown & Matthew Crawford
- 2023 Kimmo Eriksson & Jonas Eliasson
- 2024 Jeffrey Whitmer