__NOTOC__ Lynn Harold Loomis (April 25, 1915 – June 9, 1994) was an American mathematician working on analysis. Together with

Hassler Whitney Hassler Whitney (March 23, 1907 – May 10, 1989) was an American mathematician. He was one of the founders of singularity theory, and did foundational work in manifolds, embeddings, immersion (mathematics), immersions, characteristic classes and, ...

, he discovered the Loomis–Whitney inequality. Loomis received his PhD in 1942 from

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

under

Salomon Bochner Salomon Bochner (20 August 1899 – 2 May 1982) was a Galizien-born mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis, probability theory and differential geometry. Life He was born into a Jewish family in Podgórze (near Kraków), th ...

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

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and from 1949 at Harvard. From 1956, he was a member of the

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Selected works

Articles

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Books

*''Introduction to Abstract Harmonic Analysis'', Van Nostrand 1953 *with

Shlomo Sternberg Shlomo Zvi Sternberg (January 20, 1936 – August 23, 2024) was an American mathematician known for his work in geometry, particularly symplectic geometry and Lie theory. He also wrote some well-known textbooks. Education and career Sternber ...

Advanced Calculus
', Addison-Wesley 1968 (revised 1990, Jones and Bartlett; reprinted 2014, World Scientific) 'a challenging text for (first-year) undergraduate students treating calculus on Banach spaces and differentiable manifolds''; see Math 55">Math 55">'a challenging text for (first-year) undergraduate students treating calculus on Banach spaces and differentiable manifolds''; see Math 55 *''Introduction to Calculus'', Addison-Wesley 1975 *''Calculus'', Addison-Wesley 1974, 1982

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