Isaac Namioka

Isaac Namioka

Isaac Namioka (born April 25, 1928)[1] is a Japanese-American mathematician who has worked in general topology and functional analysis. He is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Washington.[2]

Early life and education

Namioka was born in Tōno, not far from Namioka in the north of Honshu, Japan. When he was young his parents moved farther south, to Himeji.[3] He attended graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, earning a doctorate in 1956 under the supervision of John L. Kelley.[4] As a graduate student, Namioka married Chinese-American mathematics student Lensey Namioka, later to become a well-known novelist who used Namioka's Japanese heritage in some of her novels.[3]

Career

Namioka taught at Cornell University until 1963, when he moved to the University of Washington.[1] There he was the doctoral advisor to four students. He has over 20 academic descendants, largely through his student Joseph Rosenblatt, who became a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[4]

Contributions

Namioka's book Linear Topological Spaces with Kelley has become a "standard text".[1] However, although his doctoral work and this book both concerned general topology, his interests later shifted to functional analysis.[5]

With Asplund in 1967, Namioka gave one of the first complete proofs of the Ryll-Nardzewski fixed-point theorem.[6]

Following his 1974 paper "separate continuity and joint continuity", a Namioka space has come to mean a topological space X with the property that whenever Y is a compact space and function f from the Cartesian product of X and Y to Z is separately continuous in X and Y, there must exist a dense Gδ set within X whose Cartesian product with Y is a subset of the set of points of continuity of f.[7][8] The result of the 1974 paper, a proof of this property for a specific class of topological spaces, has come to be known as Namioka's theorem.[9]

In 1975, Namioka and Phelps established one side of the theorem that a space is an Asplund space if and only if its dual space has the Radon–Nikodým property. The other side was completed in 1978 by Stegall.[10]

Awards and honors

A special issue of the Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications was dedicated to Namioka to honor his 80th birthday.[1] In 2012, he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[11]

Selected publications

Books
Research papers

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Cascales, Bernardo; Godefroy, Gilles; Orihuela, José; Phelps, Robert (2009), "Preface: The interplay between measure theory, topology, and functional analysis" (PDF), Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 350 (2): 425–426, doi:10.1016/j.jmaa.2008.10.035, MR 2474777.
  2. ↑ Faculty profile, Univ. of Washington, retrieved 2015-01-24.
  3. 1 2 Wakan, Naomi, Interview with Lensey Namioka, papertigers.org, retrieved 2015-01-24.
  4. 1 2 Isaac Namioka at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ↑ Beery, Janet; Mead, Carol (January 2012), "Who's That Mathematician? Paul R. Halmos Collection - Page 37", Loci (Mathematical Association of America), doi:10.4169/loci003801.
  6. ↑ Granas, Andrzej; Dugundji, James (2003), Fixed Point Theory, Springer Monographs in Mathematics, Springer-Verlag, New York, p. 196, doi:10.1007/978-0-387-21593-8, ISBN 0-387-00173-5, MR 1987179.
  7. ↑ Lee, J. P.; Piotrowski, Z. (1985), "A note on spaces related to Namioka spaces", Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society 31 (2): 285–292, doi:10.1017/S0004972700004755, MR 788582.
  8. ↑ Hazewinkel, Michiel, ed. (2001), "Namioka space", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Springer, ISBN 978-1-55608-010-4
  9. ↑ Hazewinkel, Michiel, ed. (2001), "Namioka theorem", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Springer, ISBN 978-1-55608-010-4
  10. ↑ Giles, J. R. (1982), "On the characterisation of Asplund spaces", Australian Mathematical Society, Series A 32 (1): 134–144, doi:10.1017/s1446788700024472, MR 643437.
  11. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-01-24.
  12. ↑ Review of Partially Ordered Linear Topological Spaces by Victor Klee, MR 0094681.
  13. ↑ Review of 1963 ed. of Linear Topological Spaces by Richard Friederich Arens, MR 0166578. For the 1976 ed. see MR 0394084.
  14. ↑ West, T. T. (December 1964), "Kelley, J. L., Namioka, I., and others, Linear Topological Spaces", Book Reviews, Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, Series 2 14 (2): 168, doi:10.1017/S0013091500025931.


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