Edwin Hewitt was an American mathematician known for his work in abstract harmonic analysis and for his discovery, in collaboration with Leonard Jimmie Savage, of the Hewitt-Savage zero-one law. Born in Everett, Washington, in 1920, he received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1942 and served on the mathematics faculty of the University of Washington from 1954. He pioneered the construction of the hyperreal numbers by means of an ultrapower construction in 1948. He wrote the 1975 English translation of A. A. Kirillov's Russian monograph Elements of the Theory of Representations, and co-authored the two-volume Abstract Harmonic Analysis with Kenneth A. Ross, published in 1963 and 1970. He died in 1999.
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Edwin Hewitt (January 20, 1920, Everett, Washington, June 21, 1999) was an American mathematician known for his work in abstract harmonic analysis and for his discovery, in collaboration with Leonard Jimmie Savage, of the Hewitt-Savage zero-one law.
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introduced by Edwin Hewitt in 1948
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It is named after Edwin Hewitt and Leonard Jimmie Savage.
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