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Gerald Folland

b. 1947

American mathematician

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Born 1947. Gerald Folland is an American mathematician and university teacher.

Gerald Budge Folland is an American mathematician and a professor of mathematics at the University of Washington. He is the author of several textbooks on mathematical analysis. His areas of interest include harmonic analysis (on both Euclidean space and Lie groups), differential equations, and mathematical physics.

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Publications and books A Guide to Advanced Real Analysis, Washington, D.C. : Mathematical Association of America, 2009. Quantum Field Theory : A Tourist Guide for Mathematicians, Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, 2008. Advanced Calculus, Prentice-Hall, 2002. Real Analysis: Modern Techniques and their Applications (2nd ed.), John Wiley, 1999. "The uncertainty principle: a mathematical survey", J. Fourier Anal. Appl. 4 (1997), 207–238 (with A. Sitaram). Introduction to Partial Differential Equations (2nd ed.), Princeton University Press, 1995. A Course in Abstract Harmonic Analysis, CRC Press, 1995. Fourier Analysis and Its Applications, Pacific Grove, Calif. : Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole Advanced Books & Software, 1992. Harmonic Analysis in Phase Space, Princeton University Press, 1989. Lectures on Partial Differential Equations : lectures delivered at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Springer, 1983. Hardy Spaces on Homogeneous Groups (with Elias M. Stein), Princeton University Press, 1982. "Estimates for the ∂b complex and analysis on the Heisenberg group", Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 27 (1974), 429–522 (with E. M. Stein)

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Princeton University
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Professor emeritus
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Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
Also known as
G. B. Folland, Gerald Budge Folland

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American mathematician

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Gerald Folland was born on 4 June 1947 in Salt Lake City.

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Gerald Folland is a mathematician and university teacher.

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Gerald Folland is American.

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· Wikipedia: Gerald Folland

· Wikidata: Q5549145

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