Francis Joseph Murray
Francis Joseph Murray was a mathematician, known for his foundational work on functional analysis, and what subsequently became known as von Neumann algebras. He received his BA from Columbia College in 1932 and PhD from Columbia University in 1936. He taught at Duke University.
In 1967 he was awarded the Outstanding Civilian Service Medal by the U. S. Army.
Selected publications
- 1936, "," Ann. of Math. 2: 116–229. The original paper on von Neumann algebras.
- 1937, "," Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 41: 208–248.
- 1943, "," Ann. of Math. 2: 716–808.
- 1941. An Introduction to Linear Transformations in Hilbert Space. Annals of Mathematics Studies, no. 4. Princeton Univ. Press.
- 1947. The theory of mathematical machines. Columbia Univ. Press.
- 1954.. Existence Theorems for Ordinary Differential Equations. ; 2nd printing Krieger 1976; Dover 2013.
- 1978. Applied Mathematics: An Intellectual Orientation.