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3 unusual facts about Nelson Dunford


Dunford–Pettis property

In functional analysis, the Dunford–Pettis property, named after Nelson Dunford and B. J. Pettis, is a property of a Banach space stating that all weakly compact operators from this space into another Banach space are completely continuous.

Dunford–Schwartz theorem

In mathematics, particularly functional analysis, the Dunford–Schwartz theorem, named after Nelson Dunford and Jacob T. Schwartz states that the averages of powers of certain norm-bounded operators on converge in a suitable sense.

Jacob Tamarkin

He had over twenty doctoral students at Brown, including Dorothy Lewis Bernstein, Nelson Dunford, George Forsythe and Derrick Lehmer.



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