Nicholas Young (mathematician)

For other people named Nicholas Young, see Nicholas Young (disambiguation).

Nicholas John Young is a British mathematician working in operator theory, functional analysis and several complex variables. He is a research professor at the University of Leeds.^[1] Much of his work has been about the interaction of operator theory and function theory.^[2]

Publications

Young has written more than a hundred papers,^[3] over 30 of them in collaboration with Jim Agler.^[4][5] He is the author of the book An Introduction to Hilbert Space.^[6]

His Ph.D. adviser was Vlastimil Pták, and he has had 5 Ph.D. students.^[7]