Guido Leopold Weiss (29 December 1928–25 December 2021 in

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) was an American mathematician, working in analysis, especially Fourier analysis and harmonic analysis.

Childhood

Weiss was born in

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Italy into a

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family. His parents,

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and Vonda Weiss, were both psychiatrists. Weiss was forced out of school at the age of 9, upon the passage of Italy's

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, which forbade all Jewish children from attending public school. He attended a Jewish school in

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until the end of 1939 when his father was sponsored by members of the Menninger family to emigrate to America. The family settled in

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Career

Weiss studied at the

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, where he received in 1951 his master's degree and in 1956 under

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his PhD with thesis ''On certain classes of function spaces and on the interpolation of sublinear operators''. At

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he became an instructor in 1955, an assistant professor in 1956, and in 1959 an associate professor. in 1960 he was a visiting professor in

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and in the same year a postdoc at the

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in Paris. In 1961 Weiss became an associate professor and in 1963 a professor at

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, where from 1967 to 1970 he was also chair of the mathematics department. He was a visiting professor at several universities, including the

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(1964–65), the

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(1970–71), the

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(1980), in

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and in

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. In the academic year 1987–88 he was at MSRI as the organizer of a program in classical analysis. In 1967 Weiss won the

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for his article ''Harmonic Analysis''. In 1994 he was given honorary doctorates in

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and

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. In 2012 he became a fellow of the

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.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2013-09-01.

Works

''Harmonic Analysis.''
In: ''Studies in Real and Complex Analysis,'' edited by I. I. Hirschman. MAA Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 3, Mathematical Association of America, Washington, DC, 1965, pp. 124–178. * with Elias Stein
''Introduction to Fourier Analysis on Euclidean spaces.''
Princeton University Press 1971. * with

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: ''Analyse harmonique non-commutative sur certains espaces homogènes. É́tude de certaines intégrales singulières''. Springer-Verlag 1971
2006 pbk edition
* with Ronald Coifman
''Transference methods in analysis.''
AMS 1977. * with Eugenio Hernandez
''A first course on Wavelets.''
Boca Raton, CRC Press 1996. * with Michael Frazier, Björn Jawerth
''Littlewood–Paley theory and the study of function spaces.''
AMS 1991. * with William Boothby (eds.): ''Symmetric spaces.'' Dekker 1972.

References

External links

Homepage in St. Louis

Special Issue Celebrating Guido L. Weiss for his Ninetieth Birthday
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