Robert Edmund Edwards

Robert Edmund Edwards (1926 – ?),^[1] usually cited simply as R. E. Edwards, was a British-born Australian mathematician who specialized in functional analysis. He is the author of several volumes in Springer's Graduate Texts in Mathematics.

He received his PhD at Birkbeck College, London in 1951 under Lionel Cooper. He continued to teach there as a Lecturer until 1959, and then spent a few years at Manchester, before migrating to Australia in 1961, where he worked at the Institute of Advanced Studies at ANU as a Professorial Fellow (1961-1970) and Professor of Mathematics (1970-1978).

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External links

Robert Edmund Edwards at the Mathematics Genealogy Project