Richard Friederich Arens

Not to be confused with Richard Arens of the House Un-American Activities Committee or the person connected to the Richard Draper Pioneer Fund^[1].

Richard Friederich Arens (24 April 1919 – 3 May 2000) was an American mathematician. He was born in Iserlohn, Germany. He emigrated to the United States in 1925.

Richard Friederich Arens
Born	24 April 1919 Iserlohn, Germany
Died	3 May 2000 (aged 81) Los Angeles, United States
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Harvard University University of California, Los Angeles
Awards	Putnam Fellow (1941)[2]
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of California, Los Angeles

Arens received his Ph.D. in 1945 from Harvard University.^[3] He was several times a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study (1945–46, 1946–47, and 1953–54).^[4] He was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in 1950 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.^[5]

Arens worked in functional analysis, and was a professor at UCLA for more than 40 years. He served on the editorial board of the Pacific Journal of Mathematics for 14 years 1965–1979. There are three topological spaces named for Arens in the book Counterexamples in Topology, including Arens–Fort space.

Arens died in Los Angeles, California.

See also

• Arens square
• Mackey–Arens theorem