Walter Rudin

Biography

Rudin was born into a Jewish family in Austria in 1921. He was enrolled for a period of time at a Swiss boarding school, the Institut auf dem Rosenberg, where he was part of a small program that prepared its students for entry to British universities. His family fled to France after the Anschluss in 1938.

When France surrendered to Germany in 1940, Rudin fled to England and served in the Royal Navy for the rest of World War II, after which he left for the United States. He obtained both his B.A. in 1947 and Ph.D. in 1949 from Duke University. After his Ph.D., he was a C. L. E. Moore instructor at MIT. He briefly taught at the University of Rochester before becoming a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he remained for 32 years. His research interests ranged from harmonic analysis to complex analysis.

In 1970 Rudin was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice. He was awarded the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition in 1993 for authorship of the now classic analysis texts, Principles of Mathematical Analysis and Real and Complex Analysis. He received an honorary degree from the University of Vienna in 2006.

In 1953, he married fellow mathematician Mary Ellen Estill, known for her work in set-theoretic topology. The two resided in Madison, Wisconsin, in the eponymous Walter Rudin House, a home designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. They had four children.

Rudin died on May 20, 2010, after suffering from Parkinson's disease.

Selected publications

;Ph.D. thesis

;Selected research articles

• "Totally real Klein bottles in {\mathbb{C}}^2

;Books Textbooks:

• (1953; 3rd ed., 1976, 342 pp.)
• (1966; 3rd ed., 1987, 416 pp.)
• (1973; 2nd ed., 1991, 424 pp.) Monographs:
• (1962)
• (1969)
• Function Theory in the Unit Ball of \mathbb{C}^n. (1980) Autobiography:

Major awards

• Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition (1993)

References

References

1. "Vilas Professor Emeritus Walter Rudin died after a long illness on May 20, 2010".
2. Ziff, Deborah. (May 21, 2010). "Noted UW-Madison mathematician Rudin dies at 89". Wisconsin State Journal.
3. (2013). "Remembering Walter Rudin (1921–2010)". Notices of the AMS.
4. Rudin, Walter. (1976). "Principles of Mathematical Analysis". McGraw-Hill.
5. Rudin, Walter. (1987). "Real and Complex Analysis". McGraw-Hill.
6. Rudin, Walter. (1991). "Functional Analysis". McGraw-Hill.
7. Locascio, Andrew. (13 August 2007). "Book Review: Principles of Mathematical Analysis". Mathematical Association of America.
8. (1976). "Principles of Mathematical Analysis". Mir Publishers.
9. (1979). "Principles of Mathematical Analysis (simplified Chinese translation)". People's Education Press, China Machine Press (reprint, 2004).
10. (1980). "Principles of Mathematical Analysis (Spanish translation)". Libros McGraw-Hill.
11. (1992). "The Way I Remember it". [[American Mathematical Society]].
12. Rudin, Walter. [http://www.mathunion.org/ICM/ICM1970.2/Main/icm1970.2.0489.0494.ocr.pdf "Harmonic analysis in polydiscs."] {{Webarchive. link. (2016-09-24 Actes Congr. Int. Math., Nice 2 (1970): 489–493.)
13. (2012). "Recent Advances in Harmonic Analysis and Applications: In Honor of Konstantin Oskolkov". Springer Science & Business Media.
14. Munroe, M. E.. (2016-11-06). "Review: Casper Goffman, Real Functions, and Walter Rudin, Principles of mathematical analysis, and Henry P. Thielman, Theory of functions of real variables". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society.
15. Shapiro, Victor L.. (1968). "Review: Walter Rudin, ''Real and complex analysis''". Bull. Am. Math. Soc..
16. Kadison, Richard V.. (1973-01-01). "Review of Functional Analysis". American Scientist.
17. Kahane, J.-P.. (1964). "Review: Walter Rudin, ''Fourier analysis on groups''". Bull. Am. Math. Soc..
18. Krantz, Steven G.. (1981-11-01). "Review: Walter Rudin, Function theory in the unit ball of \mathbb{C}^n". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society.