Stephen Drury (mathematician)

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Stephen William Drury is a Anglo-Canadian mathematician and professor of mathematics at McGill University.[1] He specializes in mathematical analysis, harmonic analysis and linear algebra.[2] He received his doctorate from the University of Cambridge in 1970 under the supervision of Nicholas Varopoulos[3] and completed his postdoctoral training at the Faculté des sciences d'Orsay, France. He was recruited to McGill by Professor Carl Herz in 1972.

Among other contributions, he solved the Sidon set union problem,[4][5] worked on restrictions of Fourier and Radon transforms to curves,[6] and generalized von Neumann's inequality.[7] In operator theory, the Drury–Arveson space is named after William Arveson and him.[8]

His research now pertains to the interplay between matrix theory and harmonic analysis and their applications to graph theory.

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  1. ^ "Stephen W Drury". McGill University. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
  2. ^ "S. W. Drury – Research Interests". Retrieved 2019-02-11.
  3. ^ "Sam (Stephen William) Drury". Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  4. ^ Drury, S.W., 1970, Sur les ensembles de Sidon, C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 271, pp. 162–164
  5. ^ "Carl Herz 1930–1995" (PDF). American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  6. ^ Drury, S.W., 1985. Restriction of Fourier transforms to curves. Ann. Inst. Fourier, 35(1), pp. 117–123.
  7. ^ Drury, S.W., 1978. A generalization of von Neumann’s inequality to the complex ball. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 68(3), pp. 300–304.
  8. ^ Fang, Quanlei (June 2017). "Operator theory in Drury–Arveson Space" (PDF). Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Retrieved 29 July 2019.