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Nicholas Young (mathematician)

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Nicholas John Young is a British mathematician working in operator theory, functional analysis and several complex variables. He is a research professor at the University of Leeds.[1] Much of his work has been about the interaction of operator theory and function theory.[2]

Publications

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Young has written more than a hundred papers,[3] over 30 of them in collaboration with Jim Agler.[4][5] He is the author of the book An Introduction to Hilbert Space.[6]

His Ph.D. adviser was Vlastimil Pták, and he has had 5 Ph.D. students.[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Faculty of Mathematics and Physical Sciences - Staff list". University of Leeds.
  2. ^ Axler, Sheldon (1998). Holomorphic Spaces. Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications. ISBN 978-0-521-63193-8.
  3. ^ "Publications of Nicholas Young" (PDF). University of Leeds. 17 March 2018. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  4. ^ "Search Publications database". Americal Mathematical Society. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  5. ^ MathSciNet
  6. ^ Young, N. (21 July 1988). An Introduction to Hilbert Space. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521337175.
  7. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project