Lionel Cooper (mathematician)

Lionel Cooper
JLB Cooper, c.1960
Born(1915-12-27)27 December 1915
Died8 August 1979(1979-08-08) (aged 63)
NationalitySouth African
Alma materUniversity of Cape Town
Queen's College, Oxford
AwardsBerwick Prize (1949)
Scientific career
Fieldsoperator theory, transform theory, thermodynamics, functional analysis and differential equations
InstitutionsBirkbeck College
Imperial College
Cardiff University
University of Witwatersrand
Caltech
University of Toronto
Chelsea College, University of London
Doctoral advisorEdward Titchmarsh
Doctoral studentsR. E. Edwards
James Stewart

Jacob Lionel Bakst Cooper (27 December 1915 – 8 August 1979) was a South African mathematician who worked in operator theory, transform theory, thermodynamics, functional analysis and differential equations.