Edgar Lorch

Edgar Raymond Lorch (July 22, 1907 – March 5, 1990) was a Swiss American mathematician. Described by The New York Times as "a leader in the development of modern mathematics theory",^[1] he was a professor of mathematics at Columbia University. He contributed to the fields general topology, especially metrizable and Baire spaces, group theory of permutation groups and functional analysis, especially spectral theory, convexity in Hilbert spaces and normed rings.

Edgar Lorch
Born	(1907-07-22)July 22, 1907 Nyon, Switzerland
Died	March 5, 1990(1990-03-05) (aged 82) Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Alma mater	Columbia University
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Columbia University
Thesis	Elementary Transformations  (1933)
Doctoral advisor	Joseph Ritt
Doctoral students	Hing Tong Al Goodman Edward Blum Fritz Steinhardt Leonard Gillman Alan Hoffman Fred Linton Barnett Glickfield Daniel Kocan, Jr. Phyllis Strauss Paul Meyer Julian Hennefeld Paul Fuhrmann Ralph Gellar David Hsieh Eric Braude John Jayne Kevin Broughan Thomas Lupo

Biography

Born in Switzerland, Lorch emigrated with his family to the United States in 1917 and became a citizen in 1932. He joined the faculty of Columbia University in 1935 and retired in 1976, although he continued to write and lecture as professor emeritus. For his reminiscences of Szeged, Lorch posthumously received in 1994 the Lester R. Ford Award, with Reuben Hersh as editor.^[2]