Richard Friederich Arens

Richard Friederich Arens (24 April 1919 – 3 May 2000) was an American mathematician. He was born in Iserlohn, Germany but emigrated to the United States in 1925.

Not to be confused with Richard Arens of the House Un-American Activities Committee or the person connected to the Richard Draper Pioneer Fund[1].
Richard Arens
(photo from MFO)

Arens received his Ph.D. in 1945 from Harvard University.[2] He was several times was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study (1945–46, 1946–47, and 1953–54).[3] He was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in 1950 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[4]

Arens worked in functional analysis, and was a professor at UCLA for more than 40 years. He served on the editorial board of the Pacific Journal of Mathematics for 14 years 1965–1979. There are three topological spaces named for Arens in the book Counterexamples in Topology, including Arens–Fort space.

Arens died in Los Angeles, California.

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References
  1. A different person connected to the Richard Draper Pioneer Fund was mentioned in McWhorter, D., Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama - the climactic battle of the Civil Rights Revolution. Simon and Schuster (2001). p. 165.
  2. Richard Friederich Arens at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. Institute for Advanced Study: A Community of Scholars Archived 2013-01-06 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Arens, Richard F. "Operations induced in conjugate spaces." In Proc. Internat. Congr. of Math.(Cambridge, Mass., 1950), vol. 1, pp. 532–533. 1950.


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