Biography:Billy James Pettis

Short description: American mathematician

Billy James Pettis (1913 – 14 April 1979), was an American mathematician, known for his contributions to functional analysis.

See also

• Dunford–Pettis property
• Dunford–Pettis theorem
• Milman–Pettis theorem
• Orlicz–Pettis theorem
• Pettis integral
• Pettis theorem

References

• Graves, William H.; Davis, Robert L.; Wright, Fred B., Introduction. In: Proceedings of the Conference on Integration, Topology, and Geometry in Linear Spaces (Univ. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1979), pp. vii—ix, Contemporary Mathematics 2, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, R.I., 1980. MR621848 (This is an introduction to the collection of papers dedicated to the memory of B. J. Pettis.)

External links

• Billy James Pettis at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• A Guide to the B. J. Pettis Papers, 1938-1980