Joel Alan Smoller (2 January 1936 – 27 September 2017) was an American mathematician.

Joel Smoller was born in Brooklyn on 2 January 1936 to parents Benjamin, a taxicab driver, and Olga, who died when he was young.[1][2] Smoller attended New York University, and completed his doctoral work at Purdue University in 1963, after which he taught at the University of Michigan. In 1970, he was appointed a full professor, and assumed the Lamberto Cesari Collegiate Professorship of Mathematics in 1998.[1][2] He was editor of Transactions of the American Mathematical Society from 1981 to 1985, and later the Journal for Applicable Analysis.[3] Smoller was award a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1979,[4] the George David Birkhoff Prize in 2009,[1] and elected to fellowship of the American Mathematical Society in 2013, a member of its inaugural class of fellows.[5] Smoller retired in June 2017, and died, aged 81, on 27 September 2017.[1][2] Following his death, the Joel Smoller Graduate Fellowship was established.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Obituary: Joel Smoller". The University Record. University of Michigan. 13 November 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 "Joel Smoller". Ann Arbor News. 1 October 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  3. ↑ "Past lecturers: Joel Smoller". Indiana University Bloomington. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  4. ↑ "Joel A. Smollet". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  5. ↑ "List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  6. ↑ "Joel Smoller, 1936-2017". University of Michigan. 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
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