Daoxing Xia () is a

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. He is professor emeritus at the Department of Mathematics,

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in the United States. He was elected an academician of the

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in 1980.

Career

Xia was born on October 20, 1930, in

Taizhou, Jiangsu Taizhou is a city in Jiangsu in eastern China. Situated on the north bank of the Yangtze River, it borders Nantong to the east, Yancheng to the north and Yangzhou to the west. The 2020 Chinese census counted its population at 4,512,762 o ...

. He pursued his undergraduate studies at the Department of Mathematics at

Shandong University Shandong University (; SDU) is a public university in Jinan, Shandong, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education (China), Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Clas ...

and subsequently obtained his postgraduate degree from the Department of Mathematics at

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in 1952. His advisor was

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, a pioneer of modern Chinese mathematics who was then dean of the Department of Mathematics. In 1952, Xia went to

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as an assistant. In 1954 he became a lecturer and in 1956 he received a position as an

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. In September 1957, he was sent to Moscow State University in the USSR, where he conducted one and a half years of research with the prominent mathematician I.M. Gelfand. In 1978, Xia obtained his professorship at Fudan University and rose to the position of vice director of the university's Mathematics Research Institute. In 1980 he was elected a member of the

. He was also an adjunct professor in the

Mathematical Physics Research Institute and the Department of Mathematics at

. Xia was a visiting professor of many universities and gave lectures. During the 1983-1984 academic year, Xia served as a visiting member at the

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in Princeton. In 1984, Xia become a professor at the Department of Mathematics,

. He retired in 2017. His son, Jingbo Xia, is a professor of mathematics at

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. His son-in-law, Bennett Chow, is a professor of mathematics at

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Bibliography

* ''Spectral Theory of Hyponormal Operators'', by Daoxing Xia, Springer Verlag (January 1984) * ''Spectral Theory of Linear Operators'', (with S. Yan), Press Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing (1987). * ''The Second of Functional Analysis'', (with S. Yan, W. Su and Y. Tong), Press Higher Education, Beijing (1986). * ''An Invitation to the Theory of Linear Topological Spaces'', (with Y.L. Yang), Science & Technology Press Shanghai (1986). * ''Theory of a Real Variable and Functional Analysis'', (with S. Yan. Z. Wu and W. Su), Press Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, (1980). * ''Measures and Integration on Infinite-dimensional spaces'', Science & Technology Press Shanghai (1965), Acad. Press, New York, London (1972). * ''Theory of Functions of a Real Variable and Essentials of Functional Analysis'', (with S. Yan and Z. Wu), Science & Technology Press Shanghai (1956).

References

External links

*
Daoxing Xia's homepage at the Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University
, including photo
Daoxing Xia's publications

Xia's profile in the website of Chinese Academy of Science (Branch of Shanghai)
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