__NOTOC__ Lynn Harold Loomis (25 April 1915 – 9 June 1994) was an American mathematician working on analysis. Together with

Hassler Whitney Hassler Whitney (March 23, 1907 – May 10, 1989) was an American mathematician. He was one of the founders of singularity theory, and did foundational work in manifolds, embeddings, immersions, characteristic classes, and geometric integrati ...

, he discovered the

Loomis–Whitney inequality In mathematics, the Loomis–Whitney inequality is a result in geometry, which in its simplest form, allows one to estimate the "size" of a d-dimensional set by the sizes of its (d-1)-dimensional projections. The inequality has applications in inci ...

. Loomis received his PhD in 1942 from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

under

Salomon Bochner Salomon Bochner (20 August 1899 – 2 May 1982) was an Austrian mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis, probability theory and differential geometry. Life He was born into a Jewish family in Podgórze (near Kraków), then Au ...

with thesis ''Some Studies on Simply-Connected Riemann Surfaces: I. The Problem of Imbedding II. Mapping on the Boundary for Two Classes of Surfaces''. After completing his PhD, Loomis was a professor at

Radcliffe College Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and functioned as the female coordinate institution for the all-male Harvard College. Considered founded in 1879, it was one of the Seven Sisters colleges and he ...

and from 1949 at Harvard. From 1956, he was a member of the

American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, ...

Selected works

Articles

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Books

*''Introduction to Abstract Harmonic Analysis'', Van Nostrand 1953 *with

Shlomo Sternberg Shlomo Zvi Sternberg (born 1936), is an American mathematician known for his work in geometry, particularly symplectic geometry and Lie theory. Education and career Sternberg earned his PhD in 1955 from Johns Hopkins University, with a thesis en ...

Advanced Calculus
', Addison-Wesley 1968 (revised 1990, Jones and Bartlett; reprinted 2014, World Scientific) 'a challenging text for (first-year) undergraduate students treating calculus on Banach spaces and differentiable manifolds''; see Math 55">Math 55">'a challenging text for (first-year) undergraduate students treating calculus on Banach spaces and differentiable manifolds''; see Math 55 *''Introduction to Calculus'', Addison-Wesley 1975 *''Calculus'', Addison-Wesley 1974, 1982

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