John William Helton | |
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| Born | May 2, 1945 |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Known for | Control theory, Noncommutative geometry, Operator theory, Noncommutative algebra |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics, Engineering, Computer science |
| Institutions | UCSD |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Grain Crandall |
John William "Bill" Helton (Bill Helton) (born 1945) is a professor emeritus of mathematics from the University of California at San Diego. [1] Helton is a Guggenheim Fellow and Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.[2] He has worked in the fields of operator theory, Hilbert space operators, control theory, algebraic geometry, and noncommutative computer algebra during his career.[3] He organized the first International Workshop on Operator Theory and its Applications which has spawned revolutionary cross-discipline research for over forty years.