Wilhelmus Luxemburg
Wilhelmus Anthonius Josephus Luxemburg was a Dutch American mathematician who was a professor of mathematics at the California Institute of Technology.
He received his B.A. from the University of Leiden in 1950; his M.A., in 1953; his Ph.D., from the Delft Institute of Technology, in 1955. He was an assistant professor at Caltech from 1958-60; an associate professor from 1960–62; a professor from 1962–2000; and a professor Emeritus, from 2000. He was the Executive Officer for Mathematics during 1970–85. In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Luxemburg became a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1974.
Luxemburg contributed to the development of non-standard analysis by popularizing the construction of hyperreal numbers in the 1960s. Though Edwin Hewitt had shown the construction in 1948, the formalization of non-standard analysis is generally associated with Abraham Robinson.
Other notable work he did was in the theory of Riesz spaces.
He received his B.A. from the University of Leiden in 1950; his M.A., in 1953; his Ph.D., from the Delft Institute of Technology, in 1955. He was an assistant professor at Caltech from 1958-60; an associate professor from 1960–62; a professor from 1962–2000; and a professor Emeritus, from 2000. He was the Executive Officer for Mathematics during 1970–85. In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Luxemburg became a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1974.
Luxemburg contributed to the development of non-standard analysis by popularizing the construction of hyperreal numbers in the 1960s. Though Edwin Hewitt had shown the construction in 1948, the formalization of non-standard analysis is generally associated with Abraham Robinson.
Other notable work he did was in the theory of Riesz spaces.
