John Edward McCarthy (born 20 January 1964) is a mathematician. He is currently the Spencer T. Olin Professor of Arts and Sciences, and former chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at

Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) is a private research university in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1853 by a group of civic leaders and named for George Washington, the university spans 355 acres across its Danforth ...

. He works in

operator theory In mathematics, operator theory is the study of linear operators on function spaces, beginning with differential operators and integral operators. The operators may be presented abstractly by their characteristics, such as bounded linear operato ...

and

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 applications of

mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

to other areas.

Early life, education, and career

McCarthy is a native of Ireland, and received a B.A. from

Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ...

, in 1983. He completed a Ph.D. from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

in 1989. His Ph.D. Advisor was

Donald Sarason Donald Erik Sarason (January 26, 1933 – April 8, 2017) was an American mathematician whose research topics included Hardy space theory and VMO. As a professor at the University of California, Berkeley he became the doctoral advisor of 39 gradu ...

. He originally intended to return to Ireland after his doctorate, but the Irish universities were subject to a hiring freeze at the time. Instead, after postdoctoral research at

Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington (IU Bloomington, Indiana University, IU, IUB, or Indiana) is a public university, public research university in Bloomington, Indiana, United States. It is the flagship university, flagship campus of Indiana Univer ...

, he joined Washington University in St. Louis in 1991, and became a US citizen in 1996. He has been a full professor since 1999, and Spencer T. Olin Professor of

Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis is home to the College of Arts and Sciences and corresponding graduate programs across its many departments. The current Dean of the Faculty is Feng Sheng Hu, the Lucille P. Markey Distingui ...

since 2011. He chaired the Department of Mathematics and Statistics from 2016 to 2021.

Recognition

McCarthy was one of two 2016 recipients of the

Gilbert de Beauregard Robinson Gilbert de Beauregard Robinson, MBE (3 June 1906 – 8 April 1992) was a Canadian mathematician most famous for his work on combinatorics and representation theory of the symmetric groups, including the Robinson-Schensted algorithm. Biography Gi ...

Award of the

Canadian Mathematical Society The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS; French: ''Société mathématique du Canada'') is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to advancing mathematical research, outreach, scholarship and education in Canada. The Society se ...

He was elected as 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 2018.

Books

McCarthy's books include: *''Holomorphic Spaces'' (edited with Sheldon Axler and

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, 1998. * ''Pick Interpolation and Hilbert function spaces'' (with Jim Agler),

Graduate Studies in Mathematics Graduate Studies in Mathematics (GSM) is a series of graduate-level textbooks in mathematics published by the American Mathematical Society (AMS). The books in this series are published ihardcoverane-bookformats. List of books *1 ''The General T ...

, vol. 44,

, 2002. * ''Transition to Higher Mathematics: Structure and Proof'' (with Bob A. Dumas), 1st ed.,

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, 2006; 2nd. ed., Washington University Open Scholarship, 2015. * ''Operator Analysis: Hilbert space methods in complex analysis'' (with Jim Agler and Nicholas Young), Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, vol. 219,

, 2020.Reviews of ''Operator Analysis'':

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, ; Dan Timotin,

References

External links

McCarthy's Home Page
* {{DEFAULTSORT:McCarthy, John Living people 20th-century American mathematicians Alumni of Trinity College Dublin UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni Washington University in St. Louis mathematicians Fellows of the American Mathematical Society 1964 births Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Irish mathematicians 21st-century Irish mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians American mathematics educators