John Robert Ringrose

John Robert Ringrose (born 21 December 1932) is an English mathematician working on operator algebras who introduced nest algebras. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1977.^[1] In 1962, Ringrose won the Adams Prize.

Works

• (with Richard V. Kadison): Fundamentals of the Theory of Operator Algebras, 4 vols., Academic Press 1983, 1986, 1991, 1992 (2nd edn. American Mathematical Society 1997)
• Compact non self-adjoint operators, van Nostrand 1971

See also

• Pisier–Ringrose inequality