Walter Rudin was an Austrian-American mathematician who spent most of his career as a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Born in Austria in 1921, he fled with his family after the Anschluss, served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, and then took his degrees at Duke University. His research ranged across complex analysis and harmonic analysis, but he is remembered above all for his analysis textbooks, Principles of Mathematical Analysis, Real and Complex Analysis, and Functional Analysis. These books became standard courses for generations of students in the United States and were translated into 13 languages. He received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition in 1993 for the first two of these books, and he died in 2010.
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Rudin was born into a Jewish family in Austria in 1921.
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was an Austrian-American mathematician and professor of mathematics
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He spent four years at the Volksschule and then entered the same Realschule in Vienna that his father and grandfather had attended.
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The author wishes to acknowledge his indebtedness to Professor J J Gergen, under whose direction the thesis was written.
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Rudin was born into a Jewish family in Austria in 1921.
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was an Austrian-American mathematician and professor of mathematics
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In addition to his contributions to complex and harmonic analysis
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The conjecture, which has applications in the theory of trigonometric series, was first stated by Walter Rudin in his 1960 paper Trigonometric series with gaps.
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