John B. Garnett Receives 2003 AMS Steele Prize

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January 16, 2003

PROVIDENCE, RI---John B. Garnett of the University of California, Los Angeles, is receiving the 2003 AMS Steele Prize for Exposition. Presented annually by the American Mathematical Society, the Steele Prize is one of the highest distinctions in mathematics. The prize will be awarded today at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Baltimore, Maryland.

Professor Garnett is being honored for his book Bounded Analytic Functions (Pure and Applied Mathematics, 96. Academic Press, Inc. [Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers], New York-London, 1981. xvi+467 pp.). The book, which covers a wide range of beautiful topics in analysis, is extremely well organized and well written, with elegant, detailed proofs. The book has educated a whole generation of mathematicians with backgrounds in complex analysis and function algebras. It has had a great impact on the early careers of many leading analysts and has been widely adopted as a textbook for graduate courses and learning seminars in both the US and abroad.

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