Marshall H. Stone

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Marshall H. Stone was an American mathematician renowned for his foundational work in functional analysis and lattice theory, including the Stone–Čech compactification and Stone duality.

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Marshall Harvey Stone 6
Marshall H. Stone canonical 2
Marshall Stone 1

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instanceOf American mathematician ⓘ
human ⓘ
mathematician ⓘ
academicDegree PhD in mathematics ⓘ
awardReceived Bôcher Memorial Prize ⓘ
Leroy P. Steele Prize ⓘ
National Medal of Science ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth 1903-04-08 ⓘ
dateOfDeath 1989-01-09 ⓘ
doctoralAdvisor George David Birkhoff ⓘ
educatedAt Harvard University ⓘ
employer Harvard University ⓘ
University of Chicago ⓘ
familyName Stone ⓘ
fieldOfWork functional analysis ⓘ
lattice theory ⓘ
mathematics ⓘ
operator theory ⓘ
topology ⓘ
givenName Marshall ⓘ
hasAcademicDiscipline pure mathematics ⓘ
influenced Irving Kaplansky ⓘ
Paul Halmos ⓘ
influencedBy David Hilbert ⓘ
John von Neumann ⓘ
knownFor Stone duality ⓘ
Stone representation theorem for Boolean algebras ⓘ
Stone–Čech compactification ⓘ
foundational work in functional analysis ⓘ
foundational work in lattice theory ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName English ⓘ
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences ⓘ
National Academy of Sciences ⓘ
nativeLanguage English ⓘ
notableIdea representation of Boolean algebras as fields of sets ⓘ
use of topological methods in algebra and logic ⓘ
notableWork Spectral theorem for one-parameter unitary groups ⓘ
Stone duality ⓘ
Stone representation theorem for Boolean algebras ⓘ
Stone–von Neumann theorem ⓘ
Stone–Čech compactification ⓘ
placeOfBirth New York City ⓘ
placeOfDeath Madison, Wisconsin ⓘ
positionHeld chair of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Chicago ⓘ
professor of mathematics at Harvard University ⓘ
sexOrGender male ⓘ
workLocation Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ
Chicago, Illinois ⓘ
linked to: Chicago

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Lynn Harold Loomis → doctoralAdvisor → Marshall H. Stone ⓘ
Banach–Stone theorem → namedAfter → Marshall Harvey Stone ⓘ
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Stone’s theorem on one-parameter unitary groups → namedAfter → Marshall Harvey Stone ⓘ
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Stone–Weierstrass theorem → namedAfter → Marshall Harvey Stone ⓘ
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Stone–Weierstrass theorem → introducedBy → Marshall Harvey Stone ⓘ
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Stone–Čech compactification → namedAfter → Marshall Harvey Stone ⓘ
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Stone–von Neumann theorem → namedAfter → Marshall H. Stone ⓘ
Chicago school of mathematics → notableMember → Marshall Stone ⓘ
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Stone representation theorem → namedAfter → Marshall Harvey Stone ⓘ
linked to: Marshall H. Stone