Theodore William Gamelin is an American mathematician. He is a

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of mathematics at the

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. Gamelin was born in 1939. He received his B.S. degree in mathematics from

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in 1960, and completed his Ph.D. at the

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in 1963. His doctoral advisor was

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. His doctoral dissertation was titled ''The extension problem for restrictions of functions in a subspace of C(X)''. He served as

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at the

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from 1963 to 1965, before joining the UCLA faculty. In 2012, he became one of the inaugural

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s of the

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.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2017-04-12

Selected publications

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Robert Everist Greene Robert Everist Greene (born 1943) is an American mathematician, who contributed to differential geometry and several complex variables. He is currently a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Greene was an unde ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gamelin, Theodore 20th-century American mathematicians 1953 births Living people Yale College alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty University of California, Los Angeles faculty Fellows of the American Mathematical Society