Frank Bonsall
 | This article uses bare URLs, which may be threatened by link rot. (May 2021) |
Frank Featherstone Bonsall FRS[1] (31 March 1920, Crouch End, London – 22 February 2011,[2] Harrogate) was a British mathematician.[3]
Personal life[]
Bonsall was born on 31 March 1920, the youngest son of Wilfred C Bonsall and Sarah Frank. His older brother was Arthur Bonsall.[4] He married Gillian Patrick, a Somerville graduate, in 1947.[5] Bonsall and his wife were keen hill-walkers.[6] He wrote two articles for The Scottish Mountaineering Club on the definition of a Munro. After his retirement, Bonsall and his wife moved to Harrogate.
Career[]
Bonsall graduated from Bishop's Stortford College in 1938, and studied at Merton College, Oxford.[5] He served in World War II, in the Corps of Royal Engineers, and in India from 1944 to 1946.[7]
He lectured at the University of Edinburgh from 1947 to 1948; was visiting associate professor at Oklahoma State University from 1950 to 1951; taught at Newcastle University, with Werner Wolfgang Rogosinski in the 1950s. He taught at the University of Edinburgh, from 1963 to 1984.[8] In 1963, a second chair in Mathematics was established (the Maclaurin chair). Bonsall took up the chair in 1965, but spent the following year as a visiting professor at Yale.[9] In 1966, he was awarded the London Mathematical Society's Berwick Prize.
Despite not himself having a PhD, Bonsall supervised many PhD candidates[10] who knew him affectionately as "FFB".
Works[]
- Compact linear operators, Yale University, Dept. of Mathematics, 1967
- Frank F. Bonsall, John Duncan, Numerical ranges of operators and normed spaces and of all elements of normed algebras, London Mathematical Society, 1971
- Frank F. Bonsall, J. Duncan, Numerical ranges II, Cambridge univ. press, 1973
- Frank F. Bonsall, J. Duncan, Complete normed algebras, 1973[11]
See also[]
- Arthur Bonsall
- Berwick Prize
- List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1970
- List of mathematicians (B)
References[]
- ^ Gillespie, T. A. (2020). "Frank Featherstone Bonsall. 31 March 1920 – 22 February 2011". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 69: 63–77. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2020.0007. S2CID 222142931.
- ^ "Obituaries". University of Oxford Gazette. 141 (4947): 500. 10 March 2011.
- ^ http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/obituaries/frank-bonsall-1.1094739
- ^ Obituary
- ^ Jump up to: a b Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900–1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 290.
- ^ Royal Society of Edinburgh obituary
- ^ [1]
- ^ Alastair Gillespie (4 April 2011). "Professor Frank Bonsall: Leading mathematician of the post-war years who led research into functional analysis". The Independent.
- ^ Maths Histories at St Andrews
- ^ The Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Rickart, C. E. (1975). "Review: Complete normed algebras by F. F. Bonsall and J. Duncan" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 81, Part 1 (3): 514–522. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1975-13727-x.
External links[]
- http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=15633
- search on author FF Bonsall from Google Scholar
| hide Authority control  | |
|---|---|
| General | |
| National libraries | |
| Scientific databases | |
| Other |
|
- 1920 births
- 2011 deaths
- 20th-century British mathematicians
- 21st-century British mathematicians
- Academics of the University of Edinburgh
- Alumni of Merton College, Oxford
- British Army personnel of World War II
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- People educated at Bishop's Stortford College
- People from Crouch End