JRR
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21 December 1932
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Biography
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John Robert Ringrose (born 21 December1932) is an English mathematician working on operator algebras who introduced nest algebras. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1977. In 1962, Ringrose won the Adams Prize.
Works
- with Richard V. Kadison: Fundamentals of the theory of operator algebras, 4 vols., Academic Press 1983, 1986, 1991, 1992 (2nd edn. American Mathematical Society 1997)
- Compact non self-adjoint operators, van Nostrand 1971