Daniel Gisriel Rider, Jr. (23 July 23, 1938,

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– 11 July 2008,

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) was a mathematician, specializing in harmonic analysis and Fourier analysis.Daniel Rider (1938–2008) Online Obituary - Cress Funeral and Cremation Service , Madison, Wisconsin
/ref> After spending his childhood in New England, Daniel Rider moved with his family to

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, where he graduated from secondary school. He received his bachelor's degree from

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and in 1964 his PhD under

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from the

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with thesis ''Gap Series, and Measures of Spheres''. Rider was a

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at the

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and then an assistant professor at

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. At the University of Wisconsin, Madison he was an associate professor of mathematics from 1968 to 1971 and then a full professor from 1971 until his retirement as professor emeritus in 2003.in Memoriam , Department of Mathematics, U. of Wisconsin, Madison
/ref> He was a Sloan fellow from 1969 to 1971. In 1970 he was an invited speaker at the

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in Nice.

Selected publications

*with Alessandro Figà-Talamanca: *A relation between a theorem of Bohr and Sidon sets. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 72 (1966) 558–561. *Central idempotents in group algebras. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 72 (1966) 1000–1002. *Translation-invariant Dirichlet algebras on compact groups. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1966) 977–983. *Functions which operate in the Fourier algebra of a compact group. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1971) 525–530. * *Central idempotent measures on compact groups. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 186 (1973) 459–479. *Randomly continuous functions and Sidon sets. Duke Math. J. 42, no. 4 (1975): 759–764.

References

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