Graham Robert Allan

Graham Robert Allan (13 August 1936 – 9 August 2007) was an English mathematician, specializing in Banach algebras. He was Reader in functional analysis and Vice-Master of Churchill College at Cambridge University.

Life Allan was born on 13 August 1936 in Southgate, Middlesex, England.

Allan spent most of his career at Cambridge, with interludes as a Lecturer in Pure Mathematics at Newcastle University from 1967 to 1969 and as Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Leeds from 1970 to 1978.

Back at Cambridge, he was promoted to Reader in 1980 and was Vice-Master of Churchill College from 1990 to 1993.

He contributed to section III.86 in the book The Princeton Companion to Mathematics edited by Timothy Gowers, but did not live to see his article "The Spectrum" in print form published in 2008.