Billy James Pettis
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Billy James Pettis was an American
mathematician
, known for his contributions to functional analysis
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United States
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mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
, known for his contributions to functional analysis
Functional analysis
Functional analysis is a branch of mathematical analysis, the core of which is formed by the study of vector spaces endowed with some kind of limit-related structure and the linear operators acting upon these spaces and respecting these structures in a suitable sense...
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See also
- Dunford–Pettis propertyDunford–Pettis propertyIn functional analysis, the Dunford–Pettis property, named after Nelson Dunford and B. J. Pettis, is a property of a Banach space stating that all weakly compact operators from this space into another Banach space are completely continuous...
- Dunford–Pettis theorem
- Milman–Pettis theoremMilman–Pettis theoremIn mathematics, the Milman–Pettis theorem states that every uniformly convex Banach space is reflexive.The theorem was proved independently by D. Milman and B. J. Pettis . S. Kakutani gave a different proof in , and John R. Ringrose published a shorter proof in 1959.- References :* S. Kakutani,...
- Orlicz–Pettis theoremOrlicz–Pettis theoremIn functional analysis, the Orlicz–Pettis theorem is a theorem about convergence in Banach spaces. It is named for Władysław Orlicz and Billy James Pettis. The result was originally proven by Orlicz for weakly sequentially complete normed spaces....
- Pettis integralPettis integralIn mathematics, the Pettis integral or Gelfand–Pettis integral, named after I. M. Gelfand and B.J. Pettis, extends the definition of the Lebesgue integral to functions on a measure space which take values in a Banach space, by the use of duality. The integral was introduced by Gelfand for the...
- Pettis theorem