Marshall H. Stone
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
April 8, 1903 - January 8, 1989
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Scientific Discipline: Mathematics Membership Type:
Member
(elected 1938)
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Mathematician Marshall H. Stone devoted much of his career to the workings of mathematical analysis and Boolean algebra. He made important contributions to the area of spectral theory, the study of the spectrum between vector spaces. A deeper understanding of spectral theory paved the way for advancements in quantum mechanics and waveforms.
Stone graduated from Harvard University in 1922 and went on to earn his PhD in 1926 for his dissertation, Ordinary Linear Homogeneous Differential Equations of Order n and the Related Expansion Problems. He was an instructor of mathematics at Columbia University from 1927 to 1931. He then accepted the position of associate professor at Yale in 1931 and served there until 1933, when he returned to Harvard. Stone was president of the American Mathematical Society from 1943 to 1944 and of the International Mathematical Union from 1952 to 1954. He served as head of the Mathematics Department at the University of Chicago from 1946 to 1952. In 1968 he moved to the University of Massachusetts, where he remained until he retired in 1980.
