Gerald Budge Folland is an American
mathematician
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and a professor of mathematics at the
University of Washington
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.
He is the author of several textbooks on
mathematical analysis
Analysis is the branch of mathematics dealing with continuous functions, limit (mathematics), limits, and related theories, such as Derivative, differentiation, Integral, integration, measure (mathematics), measure, infinite sequences, series ( ...
. His areas of interest include
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 ...
(on both
Euclidean space
Euclidean space is the fundamental space of geometry, intended to represent physical space. Originally, in Euclid's ''Elements'', it was the three-dimensional space of Euclidean geometry, but in modern mathematics there are ''Euclidean spaces ...
and
Lie groups
In mathematics, a Lie group (pronounced ) is a group that is also a differentiable manifold, such that group multiplication and taking inverses are both differentiable.
A manifold is a space that locally resembles Euclidean space, whereas ...
),
differential equations, and
mathematical physics
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.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the
American Mathematical Society
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.
Publications and books
''A Guide to Advanced Real Analysis'' Washington, D.C. :
Mathematical Association of America
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, 2009.
''Quantum Field Theory : A Tourist Guide for Mathematicians'' Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, 2008.
* ''Advanced Calculus'', Prentice-Hall, 2002.
* ''Real Analysis: Modern Techniques and their Applications'' (2nd ed.), John Wiley, 1999, .
* "The uncertainty principle: a mathematical survey", ''J. Fourier Anal. Appl.'' 4 (1997), 207–238 (with A. Sitaram).
''Introduction to Partial Differential Equations''(2nd ed.), Princeton University Press, 1995.
''A Course in Abstract Harmonic Analysis'' CRC Press
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, 1995.
''Fourier Analysis and Its Applications'' Pacific Grove, Calif. : Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole Advanced Books & Software, 1992.
''Harmonic Analysis in Phase Space'' Princeton University Press, 1989.
* ''Lectures on Partial Differential Equations : lectures delivered at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore'', Springer, 1983.
''Hardy Spaces on Homogeneous Groups''(with
Elias M. Stein), Princeton University Press, 1982.
* "Estimates for the ∂b complex and analysis on the
Heisenberg group
In mathematics, the Heisenberg group H, named after Werner Heisenberg, is the group of 3×3 upper triangular matrices of the form
: \begin
1 & a & c\\
0 & 1 & b\\
0 & 0 & 1\\
\end
under the operation of matrix multiplication. Elements ''a, b' ...
", ''Comm. Pure Appl. Math.'' 27 (1974), 429–522 (with E. M. Stein)
References
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External links
Jerry Folland's Personal HomepageJerry Folland's Official Homepage
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20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Living people
1947 births
Princeton University alumni
University of Washington faculty
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