Francis Murray

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For the poet with the same name, see Francis Edwin Murray.

Francis Joseph Murray (February 3, 1911, New York – March 15, 1996) was a mathematician, known for his foundational work (with John von Neumann) on functional analysis, and what subsequently became known as von Neumann algebras. He received his 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.

[edit] Selected publications

• F.J. Murray, J. von Neumann, On rings of operators Ann. of Math. (2) , 37 (1936) pp. 116–229. The original paper on von Neumann algebras.
• F.J. Murray, J. von Neumann, On rings of operators II Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. , 41 (1937) pp. 208–248.
• F.J. Murray, J. von Neumann, On rings of operators IV Ann. of Math. (2) , 44 (1943) pp. 716–808.
• Murray, F. J. An Introduction to Linear Transformations in Hilbert Space. Annals of Mathematics Studies, no. 4. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. J., 1941.
• F.J. Murray, Kenneth S Miller Existence Theorems for Ordinary Differential Equations ISBN 0-88275-320-7
• F.J. Murray Applied Mathematics: An Intellectual Orientation, ISBN 0-306-39252-6

[edit] References

• A brief obituary.
• Francis Murray at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Retirement of Francis Joseph Murray. Duke Math. J. 47 (1980), no. 4, 983-985.