Charles Read (mathematician)

Charles Read

Charles John Read (16 February 1958 – 14 August 2015) was a British mathematician known for his work in functional analysis. In operator theory, he is best known for his work in the 1980s on the invariant subspace problem, where he constructed operators with only trivial invariant subspaces on particular Banach spaces, especially on .[1][2] He won the 1985 Junior Berwick Prize for his work on the invariant subspace problem.[3]

Read has also published on Banach algebras and hypercyclicity; in particular, he constructed the first example of an amenable, commutative, radical Banach algebra.[4]

  1. ^ "Professor Charles Read". leeds.ac.uk. July 2021.
  2. ^ Yadav, B. S. (2005). "The Invariant Subspace Problem" (PDF). Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde. 5/6 (2): 148–152.
  3. ^ "Records of Proceedings at Meetings". Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society. 18 (3): 319–320. 1 May 1986. doi:10.1112/blms/18.3.319.
  4. ^ Read, C. J. (2000). "Commutative, radical amenable Banach algebras". Studia Mathematica. 140 (3): 199–212. doi:10.4064/sm-140-3-199-212. MR 1784151. Zbl 0972.46031. See MathSciNet review by Volker Runde and zbMATH review by Kjeld B.Laursen.