Richard Friederich Arens

Short description: American mathematician (1919–2000)

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 Friederich Arens

Born| 24 April 1919

Iserlohn, Germany

Died| 3 May 2000 (aged 81)

Los Angeles, United States

Nationality| American
Alma mater| Harvard University
University of California, Los Angeles
Awards| Putnam Fellow (1941)[2]
Scientific career
Fields| Mathematics
Institutions| University of California, Los Angeles

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

Arens received his Ph.D. in 1945 from Harvard University.[3] He was several times a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study (1945–46, 1946–47, and 1953–54).[4] He was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in 1950 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[5]

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.

## See also

* Arens square
* Mackey–Arens theorem

## 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. ↑ "Putnam Competition Individual and Team Winners". Mathematical Association of America. http://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/putnam-competition-individual-and-team-winners.
3. ↑ Richard Friederich Arens at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. ↑ Institute for Advanced Study: A Community of Scholars
5. ↑ Arens, Richard F. "Operations induced in conjugate spaces." In Proc. Internat. Congr. of Math.(Cambridge, Mass., 1950), vol. 1, pp. 532–533. 1950.

## External links

* Richard Friederich Arens at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
* Obituary (PDF) from the Pacific Journal of Mathematics

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