Biography:Isaac Namioka

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Isaac Namioka

Isaac Namioka (April 25, 1928 – September 25, 2019)[1] was a Japanese-American mathematician who worked in general topology and functional analysis. He was a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Washington.[2] He died at home in Seattle on September 25, 2019.[3]

Early life and education

Namioka was born in Tōno, not far from Namioka in the north of Honshu, Japan. When he was young his parents moved farther south, to Himeji.[4] He attended graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, earning a doctorate in 1956 under the supervision of John L. Kelley.[5] As a graduate student, Namioka married Chinese-American mathematics student Lensey Namioka, later to become a well-known novelist who used Namioka's Japanese heritage in some of her novels.[4]

Career

Namioka taught at Cornell University until 1963, when he moved to the University of Washington.[1] There he was the doctoral advisor to four students. He has over 20 academic descendants, largely through his student Joseph Rosenblatt, who became a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[5]

Contributions

Namioka's book Linear Topological Spaces with Kelley has become a "standard text".[1] Although his doctoral work and this book both concerned general topology, his interests later shifted to functional analysis.[6]

With Asplund in 1967, Namioka gave one of the first complete proofs of the Ryll-Nardzewski fixed-point theorem.[7]

Following his 1974 paper "separate continuity and joint continuity", a Namioka space has come to mean a topological space X with the property that whenever Y is a compact space and function f from the Cartesian product of X and Y to Z is separately continuous in X and Y, there must exist a dense Gδ set within X whose Cartesian product with Y is a subset of the set of points of continuity of f.[8][9] The result of the 1974 paper, a proof of this property for a specific class of topological spaces, has come to be known as Namioka's theorem.[10]

In 1975, Namioka and Phelps established one side of the theorem that a space is an Asplund space if and only if its dual space has the Radon–Nikodým property. The other side was completed in 1978 by Stegall.[11]

Awards and honors

A special issue of the Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications was dedicated to Namioka to honor his 80th birthday.[1] In 2012, he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[12]

Selected publications

Books
Research papers
  • Namioka, I.; Asplund, E. (1967), "A geometric proof of Ryll-Nardzewski's fixed point theorem", Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 73 (3): 443–445, doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1967-11779-8 .
  • Namioka, I. (1974), "Separate continuity and joint continuity", Pacific Journal of Mathematics 51 (2): 515–531, doi:10.2140/pjm.1974.51.515 .
  • Namioka, I.; Phelps, R. R. (1975), "Banach spaces which are Asplund spaces", Duke Mathematical Journal 42 (4): 735–750, doi:10.1215/s0012-7094-75-04261-1 .

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Cascales, Bernardo; Godefroy, Gilles; Orihuela, José; Phelps, Robert (2009), "Preface: The interplay between measure theory, topology, and functional analysis", Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 350 (2): 425–426, doi:10.1016/j.jmaa.2008.10.035, http://webs.um.es/beca/Investigacion/SpecialIssue.pdf, retrieved 2015-01-24 .
  2. ↑ Faculty profile , Univ. of Washington, retrieved 2015-01-24.
  3. ↑ "Isaac Namioka (1928-2019) | Department of Mathematics | University of Washington". https://math.washington.edu/news/2019/09/30/isaac-namioka-1928-2019. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Wakan, Naomi, Interview with Lensey Namioka, papertigers.org, http://www.papertigers.org/interviews/archived_interviews/lnamioka.html, retrieved 2015-01-24 .
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Isaac Namioka at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ↑ Beery, Janet; Mead, Carol (January 2012), "Who's That Mathematician? Paul R. Halmos Collection - Page 37", Loci (Mathematical Association of America), doi:10.4169/loci003801, http://www.maa.org/publications/periodicals/convergence/whos-that-mathematician-paul-r-halmos-collection-page-37 .
  7. ↑ Granas, Andrzej; Dugundji, James (2003), Fixed Point Theory, Springer Monographs in Mathematics, Springer-Verlag, New York, p. 196, doi:10.1007/978-0-387-21593-8, ISBN 0-387-00173-5, https://books.google.com/books?id=4_iJAoLSq3cC&pg=PA196 .
  8. ↑ Lee, J. P.; Piotrowski, Z. (1985), "A note on spaces related to Namioka spaces", Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society 31 (2): 285–292, doi:10.1017/S0004972700004755 .
  9. ↑ Hazewinkel, Michiel, ed. (2001), "Namioka space", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Springer Science+Business Media B.V. / Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 978-1-55608-010-4, https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Namioka_space 
  10. ↑ Hazewinkel, Michiel, ed. (2001), "Namioka theorem", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Springer Science+Business Media B.V. / Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 978-1-55608-010-4, https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Namioka_theorem 
  11. ↑ Giles, J. R. (1982), "On the characterisation of Asplund spaces", Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society, Series A 32 (1): 134–144, doi:10.1017/s1446788700024472 .
  12. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-01-24.
  13. ↑ Review of Partially Ordered Linear Topological Spaces by Victor Klee, MR0094681.
  14. ↑ Review of 1963 ed. of Linear Topological Spaces by Richard Friederich Arens, MR0166578. For the 1976 ed. see MR0394084.
  15. ↑ West, T. T. (December 1964), "Kelley, J. L., Namioka, I., and others, Linear Topological Spaces", Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, Series 2 14 (2): 168, doi:10.1017/S0013091500025931 .



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