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Alexander Joseph Nagel (born 13 September 1945 in
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) is an American
mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...
, specializing in
harmonic analysis Harmonic analysis is a branch of mathematics concerned with investigating the connections between a function and its representation in frequency. The frequency representation is found by using the Fourier transform for functions on unbounded do ...
, functions of
several complex variables The theory of functions of several complex variables is the branch of mathematics dealing with functions defined on the complex coordinate space \mathbb C^n, that is, -tuples of complex numbers. The name of the field dealing with the properties ...
, and linear
partial differential equation In mathematics, a partial differential equation (PDE) is an equation which involves a multivariable function and one or more of its partial derivatives. The function is often thought of as an "unknown" that solves the equation, similar to ho ...
s.


Biography

He received in 1966 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 ...
his bachelor's degree and in 1971 from
Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...
his PhD under the supervision of
Lipman Bers Lipman Bers ( Latvian: ''Lipmans Berss''; May 22, 1914 – October 29, 1993) was a Latvian-American mathematician, born in Riga, who created the theory of pseudoanalytic functions and worked on Riemann surfaces and Kleinian groups. He was also k ...
with thesis ''Sheaves of Holomorphic Functions with Boundary Conditions and Sheaf Cohomology in Banach Algebras''. At the
University of Wisconsin, Madison A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Univ ...
, Nagel was from 1970 to 1972 an instructor, from 1972 to 1974 an assistant professor, from 1974 to 1977 an associate professor, and from 1977 to 2012 a full professor, retiring in December 2012 as professor emeritus. He was chair of the mathematics department in 1991–1993 and in 2011–2012, and Associate Dean for Natural Sciences in the College of Letters and Science in 1993–1998. He was a
Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon individuals who have demonstrated d ...
for the academic year 1987–1988. He shared with Stephen Wainger the
Stefan Bergman Prize The Stefan Bergman Prize is a mathematics award, funded by the estate of the widow of mathematician Stefan Bergman and supported by the American Mathematical Society. The award is granted for mathematical research in: "1) the theory of the kernel ...
for 2007–2008. Nagel was elected a Fellow of the
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in 2009 and a Fellow of the
American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...
in 2012. Alexander Nagel, the elder son of the philosopher
Ernest Nagel Ernest Nagel (; ; November 16, 1901 – September 20, 1985) was an American philosopher of science. Suppes, Patrick (1999)Biographical memoir of Ernest Nagel In '' American National Biograph''y (Vol. 16, pp. 216-218). New York: Oxford University ...
, is the brother of the physicist Sidney R. Nagel.


Selected publications


Articles

*with
Walter Rudin Walter Rudin (May 2, 1921 – May 20, 2010) was an Austrian- American mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In addition to his contributions to complex and harmonic analysis, Rudin was known for hi ...
and Joel H. Shapiro: *with Elias M. Stein and Stephen Wainger: *with Joaquim Bruna and S. Wainger: *with Jean-Pierre Rosay, E. M. Stein, and S. Wainger: * with Der-Chen Chang and E. M. Stein: *with Michael Christ, E. M. Stein, and S. Wainger:


Books

*with E. M. Stein:


References


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nagel, Alexander 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Harvard College alumni Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Complex analysts American mathematical analysts 1945 births Living people Scientists from New York City Mathematicians from New York (state)