Andrew Gleason

Andrew Mattei Gleason (born November 4, 1921 in Fresno, California, U.S.) is an American mathematician and the eponym of Gleason's theorem. He graduated from Yale University in 1942, and subsequently joined the United States Navy, where he was part of a team responsible for breaking Japanese codes during World War II. He was appointed a Junior Fellow at Harvard in 1946, and later joined the faculty there where he was the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Philosophy. He had the rare distinction among Harvard professors of having never obtained a doctorate. He retired in 1992. He is well-known for his work on Hilbert's fifth problem.^[1]^[2]

[edit] Selected publications

One-parameter subgroups and Hilbert's fifth problem, pp. 451–452, vol. 2, Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1950 (pub. Providence, Rhode Island: American Mathematical Society, 1952.)
Measures on the closed subspaces of a Hilbert space, Journal of Mathematics and Mechanics 6 (1957), pp. 885–893.
Projective topological spaces, Illinois Journal of Mathematics 2 (1958), pp. 482–489.
Fundamentals of abstract analysis, Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1966; corrected reprint, Boston: Jones and Bartlett, 1991.