Marshall Harvey Stone | |
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| Born | April 8, 1903 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | January 9, 1989 (aged 85) |
| Education | Harvard University (BA, PhD) |
| Known for | Stone duality Stone functor Stone space Stone's theorem on one-parameter unitary groups Stone's representation theorem for Boolean algebras Stone–von Neumann theorem Stone–Čech compactification Stone–Weierstrass theorem Banach–Stone theorem Glivenko–Stone theorem |
| Awards | National Medal of Science (1982) Gibbs Lecture (1956) ICM Speaker (1936) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Real analysis, Functional analysis, Boolean algebra, Topology |
| Institutions | Harvard University University of Chicago University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Thesis | Ordinary Linear Homogeneous Differential Equations of Order n and the Related Expansion Problems (1926) |
| Doctoral advisor | G. D. Birkhoff |
| Doctoral students | |
Marshall Harvey Stone (April 8, 1903 – January 9, 1989) was an American mathematician who contributed to real analysis, functional analysis, topology and the study of Boolean algebras.