Education
He received there in 1961 his Doctor of Philosophy under Henry Helson with thesis Marcel Riesz"s theorem on conjugate functions.
He received there in 1961 his Doctor of Philosophy under Henry Helson with thesis Marcel Riesz"s theorem on conjugate functions.
Forelli received his bachelor"s degree from the University of California, Berkeley and then, after 3 years as an officer in the United States Navy, returned to Berkeley. In 1961 Forelli joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he remained for the remainder of his life. The main focus of his research was in the properties of holomorphic functions.
In particular, he used Hilbert space methods applied to the boundary values of such functions.
His contributions to the field were recognized early in his career by an invitation to give an invited lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice in 1970.