Frank John Forelli, Jr. (8 April 1932,
San Diego
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– 5 September 1994,
Madison, Wisconsin
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) was an American mathematician, specializing in the functional analysis of
holomorphic function
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s.
Forelli received his bachelor's degree from the
University of California, Berkeley
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and then, after 3 years as an officer in the U. S. Navy, returned to Berkeley.
[ He received there in 1961 his Ph.D. under ]Henry Helson
Henry Berge Helson (June 2, 1927 – January 10, 2010) was an American mathematician at the University of California at Berkeley who worked on analysis.
Education and career
Helson received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1947. ...
with thesis ''Marcel Riesz's theorem on conjugate functions''.University of Wisconsin–Madison
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, where he remained for the remainder of his life.[
Upon his death, he was survived by his wife and two daughters.][
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20th-century American mathematicians
1932 births
1994 deaths
People from San Diego
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Complex analysts
Functional analysts
American mathematical analysts
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty