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W. Forrest Stinespring
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'''William Forrest "Woody" Stinespring''' (16 March 1929, [[Charlottesville, Virginia]] – 15 May 2012) was an American mathematician, specializing in operator theory. He is known for the [[Stinespring factorization theorem]].
After graduating with a bachelor's degree from [[Harvard University]], Stinespring received his Ph.D. from the [[University of Chicago]] in 1957.<ref name=Halmos></ref> His thesis ''Integration for gages and duality theorems'' was written under the supervision of [[Irving Segal]].<ref></ref><ref></ref> Stinespring was a visiting scholar at the [[Institute for Advanced Study]] from 1957 to 1959.<ref></ref> After teaching at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]], [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], and the University of Chicago, he became in 1966 a professor at the [[University of Illinois at Chicago]], retiring there as professor emeritus in 1999.<ref name=Halmos/> He wrote 7 papers with [[David Shale]].
According to [[William Arveson]]:
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W. Forrest Stinespring's father was William Franklin Stinespring (b. 1901), who was a professor at Duke University Divinity School from 1936 to 1971.
==Selected publications==
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* 1959 (translated into Russian by S. G. Gindikin [https://ift.tt/2nCCEWI Matematika, 1961, volume 5, issue 3, pages 81–94])
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==References==
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[[Category:1929 births]]
[[Category:2012 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century American mathematicians]]
[[Category:21st-century American mathematicians]]
[[Category:Operator theorists]]
[[Category:Harvard University alumni]]
[[Category:University of Chicago alumni]]
[[Category:University of Illinois at Chicago faculty]]
After graduating with a bachelor's degree from [[Harvard University]], Stinespring received his Ph.D. from the [[University of Chicago]] in 1957.<ref name=Halmos></ref> His thesis ''Integration for gages and duality theorems'' was written under the supervision of [[Irving Segal]].<ref></ref><ref></ref> Stinespring was a visiting scholar at the [[Institute for Advanced Study]] from 1957 to 1959.<ref></ref> After teaching at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]], [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], and the University of Chicago, he became in 1966 a professor at the [[University of Illinois at Chicago]], retiring there as professor emeritus in 1999.<ref name=Halmos/> He wrote 7 papers with [[David Shale]].
According to [[William Arveson]]:
</ref>}}
W. Forrest Stinespring's father was William Franklin Stinespring (b. 1901), who was a professor at Duke University Divinity School from 1936 to 1971.
==Selected publications==
* (This article has over 1600 citations.)
*
*
* 1959 (translated into Russian by S. G. Gindikin [https://ift.tt/2nCCEWI Matematika, 1961, volume 5, issue 3, pages 81–94])
*
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:1929 births]]
[[Category:2012 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century American mathematicians]]
[[Category:21st-century American mathematicians]]
[[Category:Operator theorists]]
[[Category:Harvard University alumni]]
[[Category:University of Chicago alumni]]
[[Category:University of Illinois at Chicago faculty]]
September 29, 2019 at 11:49PM
