Background
He was born in Iserlohn, Germany but emigrated to the United States of America in 1925.
He was born in Iserlohn, Germany but emigrated to the United States of America in 1925.
Arens received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1945 from Harvard University.
He was several times was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study (1945-1946, 1946-1947, and 1953-1954). He worked in functional analysis, and was a professor at University of California, Los Angeles for more than 40 years. He served on the editorial board of the Pacific Journal of Mathematics for 14 years 1965–1979.
There are three topological spaces named for Arens in the book Counterexamples in Topology, including Arens–Fort space.
Arens died in Los Los Angeles