Richard Allen Hunt (16 June 1937 – 22 March
2009) was an American
mathematician
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. He graduated from
Washington University in St. Louis in 1965 with a dissertation entitled ''Operators acting on
Lorentz Spaces''. An important result of states that the
Fourier expansion
A Fourier series () is an Series expansion, expansion of a periodic function into a sum of trigonometric functions. The Fourier series is an example of a trigonometric series. By expressing a function as a sum of sines and cosines, many problems ...
of a function in ''L''
''p'',
''p'' > 1, converges almost everywhere. The case ''p=2'' is due to
Lennart Carleson, and for this reason the general result is called the
Carleson-Hunt theorem. Hunt was the 1969 recipient of the
Salem Prize. He was a faculty member at
Purdue University
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from 1969 to 2000, when he retired as professor emeritus.
See also
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Convergence of Fourier series
In mathematics, the question of whether the Fourier series of a given periodic function converges to the given function is researched by a field known as classical harmonic analysis, a branch of pure mathematics. Convergence is not necessarily gi ...
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20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Washington University in St. Louis alumni
Purdue University faculty
1937 births
2009 deaths
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