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American mathematician
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Male
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Birth:
24 July 1888(Bridgewater)
Death:
6 November 1946
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Biography
Introduction
Dunham Jackson (July 24, 1888 in Bridgewater, Massachusetts – November 6, 1946) was a mathematician who worked within approximation theory, notably with trigonometrical and orthogonal polynomials. He is known for Jackson's inequality. He was awarded the Chauvenet Prize in 1935. His book Fourier Series and Orthogonal Polynomials (dated 1941) was reprinted in 2004.
Publications
- Dunham Jackson: The Theory of Approximation. AMS, 1930.
- Dunham Jackson: Fourier Series and Orthogonal Polynomials. Carus Mathematical Monographs, 1941.
- Shohat, J. (1931). "Dunham Jackson on Approximation". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 37 (7): 501–505. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1931-05168-5.
- Moore, C. N. (21 August 1942). "THE FOURIER SERIES: Fourier Series and Orthogonal Polynomials by Dunham Jackson". Science (N.S.). 96 (2486): 183–184. doi:10.1126/science.96.2486.183.