James A. Clarkson | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Brown University |
| Known for | Clarkson's inequalities |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Tufts University |
| Thesis | On Definitions of Bounded Variation for Functions of Two Variables, On Double Riemann–Stieltjes Integrals (1934) |
| Doctoral advisor | Clarence Raymond Adams |
James Andrew Clarkson (7 February 1906 – 6 June 1970) was an American mathematician and professor of mathematics who specialized in number theory. He is known for proving inequalities in Hölder spaces, and derived from them, the uniform convexity of Lp spaces. His proofs are known in mathematics as Clarkson's inequalities. He was an operations' analyst during World War II, and was awarded the Medal of Freedom for his achievements. He wrote First reader on game theory, and many of his academic papers have been published in several scientific journals. He was an invited speaker at the 1932 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Zürich.