Nicholas Young (mathematician)
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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.{{Cite web|url=https://physicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk/stafflist|title=Faculty of Mathematics and Physical Sciences - Staff list|website=University of Leeds}} Much of his work has been about the interaction of operator theory and function theory.{{cite book |last1=Axler |first1=Sheldon|authorlink=Sheldon Axler |title=Holomorphic Spaces |date=1998 |publisher=Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications |isbn=978-0-521-63193-8}}
Publications
Young has written more than a hundred papers,{{Cite web|url=http://www1.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~nicholas/publist.pdf|title=Publications of Nicholas Young|date=17 March 2018|website=University of Leeds|access-date=23 October 2018}} over 30 of them in collaboration with Jim Agler.{{Cite web|url=https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet|title=Search Publications database|website=Americal Mathematical Society|language=en|access-date=2018-10-23}}[https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet MathSciNet] He is the author of the book An Introduction to Hilbert Space.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_igwFHKwcyYC|title=An Introduction to Hilbert Space|last=Young|first=N.|date=1988-07-21|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521337175|language=en}}
His Ph.D. adviser was Vlastimil Pták, and he has had 5 Ph.D. students.[https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=208641 Mathematics Genealogy Project]
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