Biography

Short Biography

I was born, raised, and educated in New Orleans, La, receiving my BS from Loyola University in 1961.  In 1965 I got a PhD from LSU and began my career as a mathematician at Indiana University where I remained until 1990 when I accepted the job as head of the mathematic at the University of Tennessee. After a brief stay at NSF I arrived at GWU in 2006. I spent my first sabbatical in 1972 at the Free University of Amsterdam, and I have spent summers at Berkeley (1968) and the University of Grenoble (1981).

I have had 19 PhD students.

Here are some photos of me and my students taken at the SEAM 2000 at the University of Virginia. 

I have collected here a few documents associated with some of my books. These are in pdf file.

1. Corrections for my book "A Course in Functional Analysis" (Second Edition, Third Printing).
2. Notes for a Third Edition of "A Course in Functional Analysis." . I am not currently planning a third edition. These notes are changes that are not corrections and are too extensive to incorporate in another printing.
3. Corrections for my book "Functions of One Complex Variable." (Second edition, fourth printing). The seventh printing, which exists, incorporates these corrections. I have not compiled a set of corrections for later printings.
4. Additions and Changes for "Functions of One Complex Variable." Some of these are comments on the exercises and some are references to the literature.
5. Corrections for "Functions of One Complex Variable,II."
6. Corrections for "Theory of Subnormal Operators."

You are also welcomed to down load the file References . This is a pdf file of almost all the refernces I have used in books and papers that I have written.

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A pdf version of my CV is available.

House in France 

The renovation of our house in Brittany is complete, including building the terrace. You are welcomed to browse some pictures of the house.

Family photos are found here. 

Here is a link to the Anglo-American School in St Petersburg , where my son teaches.

I have collected here a few documents associated with some of my books. These are in pdf file.

1. Corrections for my book "A Course in Functional Analysis" (Second Edition, Third Printing).
2. Notes for a Third Edition of "A Course in Functional Analysis." . I am not currently planning a third edition. These notes are changes that are not corrections and are too extensive to incorporate in another printing.
3. Corrections for my book "Functions of One Complex Variable." (Second edition, fourth printing). The seventh printing, which exists, incorporates these corrections. I have not compiled a set of corrections for later printings.
4. Additions and Changes for "Functions of One Complex Variable." Some of these are comments on the exercises and some are references to the literature.
5. Corrections for "Functions of One Complex Variable,II."
6. Corrections for "Theory of Subnormal Operators."

You are also welcomed to down load the file References . This is a pdf file of almost all the refernces I have used in books and papers that I have written.

***********************************************

A pdf version of my CV is available.

House in France 

The renovation of our house in Brittany is complete, including building the terrace. You are welcomed to browse some pictures of the house.

Family photos are found here. 

Here is a link to the Anglo-American School in St Petersburg , where my son teaches.