Arthur Milgram

Arthur Norton Milgram (1912 to 1961) was an American mathematician who contributed to functional analysis, combinatorics, differential geometry, topology, partial differential equations and Galois theory. He is best remembered for the Lax-Milgram theorem, a result in functional analysis that is central to the study of partial differential equations, and he also discussed applications of Galois theory in the third chapter of Emil Artin's book on the subject. In 1960 he co-authored a paper on graph theory with Tibor Gallai generalizing a theorem of Redei. Born in Philadelphia, he received his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1937 under John Kline. He worked at Syracuse University, where he advised two doctoral students, and later moved to the University of Minnesota, where he helped found its well known group in partial differential equations. His son Richard James Milgram also became a mathematician.