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of the MAA. He held this office for 13 years. Gillman retired from UT in 1987 and served as President of the MAA for the term 1987–1988. Leonard Gillman received a
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where he continued doing Navy work for the Operations Evaluation Group (OEG), affiliated with the
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and F-spaces, and Gillman and Jerison published an entire textbook on the subject:
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in mathematics in 1941. He stayed on as a graduate student, and completed the
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in 1926, and he began intensive training as a pianist. Upon graduation from
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at MIT to write a doctoral thesis. Originally he intended for it to be on
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In 1960, he became chairman of the department of mathematics at the
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After one semester at Juilliard, he enrolled in evening classes in
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Fine, N.J.; Gillman, L. (February 1962). "Remote points in βR".
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Gillman, Leonard (January 1992). "The Car and the Goats".
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everywhere he worked, and performed four times at the
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Mathematical Association of America. 304:At Purdue, he began to do research in 277:. After five years he took a one-year 1145:University of Texas at Austin faculty 275:Massachusetts Institute of Technology 7: 1175:20th-century American male musicians 1105:21st-century American mathematicians 1100:20th-century American mathematicians 285:, but he happened to read a book by 1048:(4): 34–35. August–September 2009. 667:Gillman, Leonard (June–July 2002). 441:. Gillman died on April 7, 2009 in 407:Mathematical Association of America 269:from Columbia in 1945. He moved to 1120:Columbia College (New York) alumni 961:Henriksen, Melvin (October 1997). 725:(2003 Lester R. Ford Award winner) 289:and became suddenly interested in 212:Juilliard Graduate School of Music 198:lessons at age six. They moved to 74:Juilliard Graduate School of Music 14: 611:Gillman, Leonard (January 1993). 1160:20th-century classical musicians 1115:American male classical pianists 1075:Gillman's home page at UT Austin 993:Henriksen, Melvin (March 1998). 1165:20th-century classical pianists 1150:University of Rochester faculty 355:In 1958, Gillman was awarded a 1170:20th-century American pianists 561:Gillman, Leonard (June 1987). 429:Gillman was involved in local 363:. He and former OEG colleague 1: 796:Mathematics Genealogy Project 752:Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic 676:American Mathematical Monthly 620:American Mathematical Monthly 583:American Mathematical Monthly 411:American Mathematical Society 342:Rings of Continuous Functions 190:in 1917. His family moved to 167:University of Texas at Austin 127:University of Texas at Austin 361:Institute for Advanced Study 1110:American classical pianists 421:in 1994 and again in 2003. 1191: 757:Cambridge University Press 1155:American textbook writers 951:Austin American-Statesman 886:Gillman, Leonard (2002). 847:Gillman, Leonard (1993). 435:Joint Mathematics Meeting 257:. While there he wrote a 148: 93: 308:, in collaboration with 192:Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 182:Early life and education 1125:Juilliard School alumni 663:for expository writing) 395:University of Rochester 371:and showed that if the 261:based on their work on 206:in 1933, Gillman won a 123:University of Rochester 999:Topological Commentary 967:Topological Commentary 935:Obituary at MAA Online 265:, and he received his 16:American mathematician 465:Annals of Mathematics 449:Selected publications 390:) has remote points. 357:Guggenheim Fellowship 1140:American topologists 661:Lester R. Ford Award 419:Lester R. Ford Award 373:continuum hypothesis 326:continuous functions 186:Gillman was born in 892:Amer. Math. Monthly 853:Amer. Math. Monthly 808:"1958 Fellows Page" 399:Arthur Harold Stone 232:Columbia University 78:Columbia University 743:Feferman, Anita B. 659:(winner of a 1994 242:for a mathematics 155:Leonard E. Gillman 770:978-0-521-80240-6 747:Feferman, Solomon 715:on March 23, 2012 649:on March 23, 2012 572:978-0-88385-443-3 468:. Second Series. 425:Music aspirations 334:topological space 299:Purdue University 287:Wacław Sierpiński 165:professor at the 152: 151: 119:Purdue University 95:Scientific career 1182: 1064: 1062: 1060: 1037: 1021: 1019: 1017: 989: 987: 985: 954: 943: 937: 932: 926: 925: 907: 883: 877: 876: 844: 838: 837: 830:"MAA Presidents" 826: 820: 819: 814:. Archived from 804: 798: 789: 783: 782: 739: 724: 722: 720: 714: 708:. Archived from 691: 673: 658: 656: 654: 648: 642:. 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Cleveland, Ohio
Austin, Texas
Juilliard Graduate School of Music
Columbia University
Topology
Mathematician
pianist
Purdue University
University of Rochester
University of Texas at Austin
Doctoral advisor
Edgar Lorch
Alfred Tarski
mathematician
emeritus
University of Texas at Austin
pianist
Cleveland, Ohio
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
piano
New York City
high school
fellowship
Juilliard Graduate School of Music
French
mathematics
Columbia University
B.S.
coursework
Ph.D.

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