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John B. Conway is a Mathematician at the George Washington University . He is currently the department Chairman , replacing Daniel Ullman in that capacity. His specialty is Functional Analysis , particularly Bounded Operator s on a Hilbert Space .

Conway earned his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University under the direction of Heron Collins in 1965 , with a Dissertation on ''The Strict Topology and Compactness in the Space of Measures''. He has had 20 students who obtained doctorates under his supervision, most of them at Indiana University , where he was a close friend of mathematician Max Zorn . He served on the faculty there from 1965 to 1990 , when he became head of the mathematics department at University of Tennessee.

He is the author of a two-volume series on ''Functions of One Complex Variable'' (Springer-Verlag) which is a standard graduate text.


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