John Joseph Benedetto is a Professor of Mathematics

Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

 at the University of Maryland, College Park

University of Maryland, College Park

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 and is a leading researcher in wavelet

Wavelet

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 analysis and Director of the Norbert Wiener Center for Harmonic Analysis and Applications

Norbert Wiener Center for Harmonic Analysis and Applications

Named after the highly esteemed scientist Norbert Wiener, the Norbert Wiener Center for Harmonic Analysis and Applications is devoted to research and education in harmonic analysis, based at the University of Maryland, College Park. It is supported by the University of Maryland, College Park, the...

. He was named Distinguished Scholar-Teacher by the University of Maryland in 1999 and has directed 47 Ph.D students. The volume Harmonic Analysis and Applications: In Honor of John Benedetto, edited by Christopher Heil, describes his influence:

John J. Benedetto has had a profound influence not only on the direction of harmonic analysis and its applications, but also on the entire community of people involved in the field.

Education

Benedetto attended Boston College

Boston College

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, graduating in 1960 with a B.A. in Mathematics. He received an M.A. from Harvard University

Harvard University

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 in 1962, and moved to the University of Toronto

University of Toronto

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, where he was the first student to receive a Ph.D. from then-34 year old Chandler Davis. His dissertation was The Laplace Transform of Generalized Functions.

Publications

Benedetto founded the Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications in 1994, published by Birkhäuser. He also founded a book series for Birkhäuser in Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis. He has edited or co-authored 10 books and published over 150 research papers.

Books

• (1966) Generalized Functions
• (1971) Harmonic Analysis on Totally Disconnected Sets
• (1975) Spectral Synthesis
• (1976) Real Variable and Integration with Historical Notes
• (1977) A Mathematical Approach to Mathematics Appreciation
• (1994) Wavelets: Mathematics and Applications, with M. Frazier
• (1996) Harmonic Analysis and Applications
• (2001) Modern Sampling Theory: Mathematics and Applications, with P. Ferreira
• (2004) Sampling, Wavelets, and Tomography, with A. Zayed
• (2009) Integration and Modern Analysis, with Wojciech Czaja

External links

• Speaker Bio from NIST
• Norbert Wiener Center for Harmonic Analysis and Applications
• Homepage
• Mathematics genealogy project
• Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications
• Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis
• Harmonic Analysis and Applications, A volume in honor of John J. Benedetto (C. Heil, editor) Birkhäuser, Boston, 2006.