Nicholas John Young is a British
mathematician
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working 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 ...
,
functional analysis
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and
several complex variables
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. He is a
research professor
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at the
University of Leeds
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. Much of his work has been about the interaction of operator theory and
function theory.
Publications
Young has written more than a hundred papers, over 30 of them in collaboration with
Jim Agler. He is the author of the book ''An Introduction to
Hilbert Space
In mathematics, a Hilbert space is a real number, real or complex number, complex inner product space that is also a complete metric space with respect to the metric induced by the inner product. It generalizes the notion of Euclidean space. The ...
''.
His Ph.D. adviser was
Vlastimil Pták, and he has had 5 Ph.D. students.
Mathematics Genealogy Project
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References
1943 births
Living people
Academics of the University of Leeds
Hilbert spaces
Operator theorists
20th-century British mathematicians
Alumni of the University of Oxford
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