Marshall H. Stone
Marshall Stone's family expected him to become a lawyer like his father, but he became enamored of mathematics while he was an undergraduate at Harvard University, where he was a classmate of future judge Henry Friendly.He completed a PhD there in 1926, with a thesis on differential equations that was supervised by George David Birkhoff.While chairman, Stone hired several notable mathematicians including Paul Halmos, André Weil, Saunders Mac Lane, Antoni Zygmund, and Shiing-Shen Chern.In 1989, Stone died in Madras, India (now referred to as Chennai), due to a stroke.For instance, University of Massachusetts Amherst mathematician Larry Mann claimed that "Professor Stone was one of the greatest American mathematicians of this century," while Mac Lane described how Stone made the University of Chicago mathematics department the "best department in mathematics in the country in that period.
New York CityMadrasHarvard UniversityStone dualityStone functorStone spaceStone's theorem on one-parameter unitary groupsStone's representation theorem for Boolean algebrasStone–von Neumann theoremStone–Čech compactificationStone–Weierstrass theoremBanach–Stone theoremGlivenko–Stone theoremNational Medal of ScienceGibbs LectureICM SpeakerReal analysisFunctional analysisBoolean algebraTopologyUniversity of ChicagoUniversity of Massachusetts AmherstThesisDoctoral advisorG. D. BirkhoffHolbrook MacNeilleJohn W. CalkinWilliam Frederick EberleinEdwin HewittGeorge MackeyRichard V. KadisonBernard A. GallerÁdám KorányiInternational Congress of MathematiciansBoolean algebrasHarlan Fiske StoneChief Justice of the United StatesHenry Friendlydifferential equationsGeorge David BirkhoffYale UniversityColumbia UniversityWorld War IIUnited States Department of WarPaul HalmosAndré WeilSaunders Mac LaneAntoni ZygmundShiing-Shen ChernMadras, IndiaStone–von NeumannHilbert spaceself-adjoint operatorsHermann Weylspectral theorygroup theoryquantum mechanicsmathematical logicuniversal algebracategory theoryWeierstrassAmerican Academy of Arts and SciencesNational Academy of SciencesAmerican Philosophical SocietyAmerican Mathematical SocietyInternational Mathematical UnionBibcodeConvex spaceIdealsUnbounded operatorStone algebraNew York TimesHille, EinarRobertson, Edmund F.MacTutor History of Mathematics ArchiveUniversity of St AndrewsCambridge University PressUnited States National Medal of SciencelaureatesNeal Elgar MillerHerbert A. SimonAnne AnastasiGeorge J. StiglerMilton FriedmanLeonid HurwiczPatrick SuppesGeorge A. MillerEleanor J. GibsonRobert K. MertonRoger N. ShepardPaul SamuelsonWilliam K. EstesWilliam Julius WilsonRobert M. SolowGary BeckerR. Duncan LuceKenneth ArrowGordon H. BowerMichael I. PosnerMortimer MishkinAnne TreismanRobert AxelrodAlbert BanduraHuda AkilShelley E. TaylorLarry BartelsC. B. van NielTheodosius DobzhanskyMarshall W. NirenbergFrancis P. RousGeorge G. SimpsonDonald D. Van SlykeEdward F. KniplingFritz Albert LipmannWilliam C. RoseSewall WrightKenneth S. ColeHarry F. HarlowMichael HeidelbergerAlfred H. SturtevantHorace BarkerBernard B. BrodieDetlev W. BronkJay LushBurrhus Frederic SkinnerRobert Huebner