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Rickart, Charles Earl was born on June 28, 1913 in Osage City, Kansas, United States. Son of Charles Day and Ola May (Brewer) Rickart.
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The term "function algebra" usually refers to a uniformly closed algebra of complex valued continuous functions on a compact Hausdorff space. Such Banach alge bras, which are also called "uniform algebras", have been much studied during the past 15 or 20 years. Since the most important examples of uniform algebras consist of, or are built up from, analytic functions, it is not surprising that most of the work has been dominated by questions of analyticity in one form or another. In fact, the study of these special algebras and their generalizations accounts for the bulk of the re search on function algebras. We are concerned here, however, with another facet of the subject based on the observation that very general algebras of continuous func tions tend to exhibit certain properties that are strongly reminiscent of analyticity. Although there exist a variety of well-known properties of this kind that could be mentioned, in many ways the most striking is a local maximum modulus principle proved in 1960 by Hugo Rossi RIl. This result, one of the deepest and most elegant in the theory of function algebras, is an essential tool in the theory as we have developed it here. It holds for an arbitrary Banaeh algebra of £unctions defined on the spectrum (maximal ideal space) of the algebra. These are the algebras, along with appropriate generalizations to algebras defined on noncompact spaces, that we call "natural func tion algebras".
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This book is devoted to an analysis of the way that structures must enter into a serious study of any subject, and the term "structuralism" refers to the general method of approaching a subject from the viewpoint of structure. A proper appreciation of this approach requires a deeper understanding of the concept of structure than is provided by the simple intuitive notion of structures that everyone posseses to some degree. Therefore, a large part of the discussion is devoted directly or indirectly to a study of the nature of structures themselves. A formal definition of a structure, plus some basic general properties and examples, is given early in the discussion. Also, in order to clarify the general notions and to see how they are used, the later chapters are devoted to an examination of how structures enter into some special fields, including linguistics, mental phenomena, mathematics (and its applications), and biology (especially in the theory of evolution). Because the author is a mathematician, certain mathematical ideas have influenced greatly the choice and approach to the material covered. In general, however, the mathematical influence is not on a technical level and is often only implicit. Even the chapter on mathematical structures is nontechnical and is about rather than on mathematics. Only in the last chapter and earlier in three short sections does one find any of the expected "formal" mathematics. In other words, the great bulk of the material is accessible to someone without a mathematical background.
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Rickart, Charles Earl was born on June 28, 1913 in Osage City, Kansas, United States. Son of Charles Day and Ola May (Brewer) Rickart.
Bachelor of Arts, University Kansas, 1937; Master of Arts, University Kansas, 1938; Doctor of Philosophy, University Michigan, 1941.
Peirce instructor mathematics, Harvard University, 1941-1943; member of faculty, Yale University, since 1943; professor mathematics, Yale University, 1959-1983; department chairman, Yale University, 1959-1965; Percey F. Smith professor mathematics, Yale University, 1963-1983; professor emeritus, Yale University, since 1983.
(This book is devoted to an analysis of the way that struc...)
(The term "function algebra" usually refers to a uniformly...)
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Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association of University Professors, Connecticut Academy Arts and Sciences, American Math Society, Math. Association of America.
Married Annabel Esther Erickson, March 31, 1942. Children: Mark Charles, Eric Alan, Thomas Melvin.