George Herbert Swift Jr
American mathematician and computer scientist
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| Intro | American mathematician and computer scientist | |||
| Places | United States of America | |||
| was | Mathematician Scientist Computer scientist | |||
| Work field | Mathematics Science Technology | |||
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| Birth | 1 July 1926 | |||
| Death | 23 September 2014 (aged 88 years) | |||
| Star sign | Cancer | |||
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Biography
George Herbert Swift, Jr (July 1, 1926, Minot, ND – September 23, 2014) was an American mathematician and computer scientist. Swift attended the University of Oregon, earning a master's degree in mathematics in 1951, before attending the University of Washington, where he earned a PhD in mathematics in 1954 under Edwin Hewitt on irregular Borel measure. He began at Duke University in 1954 as an instructor before being IBM hired him in 1956; he would spend 32 years with the company, where he contributed to the development of the IBM 5100. He retired in 1988 from IBM to teach full-time in mathematics as well as computer science.
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- Swift, George (1955), "Irregular Borel measures on topological spaces", Duke Mathematical Journal, 22 (3): 427–433, doi:10.1215/s0012-7094-55-02246-8, MR 0072202
- Swift, George (1956), "n-valued irregular Borel measures", Duke Mathematical Journal, 23 (3): 393–407, doi:10.1215/s0012-7094-56-02336-5, MR 0080137