James A. Clarkson

James Andrew Clarkson (7 February 1906 – 6 June 1970) was an American mathematician and professor of mathematics who specialized in number theory. He is known for proving inequalities in Hölder spaces, and derived from them, the uniform convexity of Lp spaces. His proofs are known in mathematics as Clarkson's inequalities. He was an operations' analyst during World War II, and was awarded the Medal of Freedom for his achievements. He wrote First reader on game theory, and many of his academic papers have been published in several scientific journals. He was an invited speaker at the 1932 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Zürich.

James A. Clarkson
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBrown University
Known forClarkson's inequalities
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsTufts University
ThesisOn Definitions of Bounded Variation for Functions of Two Variables, On Double Riemann–Stieltjes Integrals (1934)
Doctoral advisorClarence Raymond Adams

Life

Originally from Massachusetts, in 1934 he received the Ph.D. in Mathematics from Brown University, with the dissertation entitled On Definitions of Bounded Variation for Functions of Two Variables, On Double Riemann–Stieltjes Integrals under the supervision of advisor Clarence Raymond Adams.[1]

In 1943, he was assigned as a bombing analyst at the Bombing Accuracy Subsection of the Operational Research Section (ORS) at the Headquarters Eighth Air Force division of the United States Air Force, alongside other mathematicians like Frank M. Stewart, J. W. T. Youngs, Ray E. Gilman, and W. J. Youden. He later received the Medal of Freedom.[2][3]

From 1940 to 1948 he held a tenured appointment in the Department of Mathematics in the University of Pennsylvania[4] and then from 1949 to 1970 he held a professorship at Tufts University.[5]

Most of his academic papers and contributions have been published by the American Mathematical Society, and Duke Mathematical Journal.

Academic papers

References
  1. James A. Clarkson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. Richard A. Askey; Uta C. Merzbach (1989). "The Mathematical Scene, 1940–1965". A century of mathematics in America. 1(1988). American Mathematical Soc. p. 380. ISBN 978-0-8218-0124-6. LCCN 88022155. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
  3. McArthur, C. W. (1990). Operations Analysis in the U.S. Army: Eighth Air Force in World War II. American Mathematical Society. ISBN 9780821801581. LCCN 90000829.
  4. "Tenured Faculty 1899 –". University of Pennsylvania. Archived from the original on 6 January 2013. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
  5. "Tufts University Fact Book 2011–2012" (PDF). Tufts University. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
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OCLC 15215732, 227257702, 559697121
OCLC 559697139
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