Andrew Browder
| Andrew Browder | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 8, 1931 Moscow, Russia |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater |
M.I.T class of 1961 |
| Known for | Functional Analysis. |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Brown University |
| Doctoral advisor | Isadore Manuel Singer |
Andrew Browder (born January 8, 1931) is an American mathematician at Brown University.
Andrew Browder was born in Moscow, Russia, where his father Earl Browder, an American communist from Kansas, United States, was living and working for a period. His mother was Raisa , a Russian woman. His brothers were Felix Browder, also born in Moscow, and William Browder. All three had careers in mathematics. Their father returned to the United States in the early 1930s, bringing his family with him. The senior Browder became head of the Communist Party USA. He ran for US President in 1936 and 1940.
The analytic nature of the game of chess enthralled Andrew early on: "My own main sport was always chess. My father taught me the game when I was six, a friend of the family gave me a chess book when I was eleven or twelve, and after that I was hooked." Andrew traces his interest in mathematics to 1955 when he was a private at Fort Dix and Eisenhower offered early release to servicemen entering graduate school. He studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For two years he was a Miller Fellow at University of California, Berkeley and also studied at Aarhus, Denmark. As for teaching, "I taught well over one hundred courses, some of which I found interesting and enjoyable, some pretty depressing, most somewhere in between. The students had parallel experiences."
In 1969 Browder published Introduction to Function Algebras. "The author develops much of the general theory of function algebras and then applies it in the last two chapters to the theory of rational approximation in the plane, and to finding analytic structure in the spectrum of a Dirichlet algebra."
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