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 operators 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.
Selected publications
- Conway, John B. (1978). Functions of One Complex Variable I (Graduate Texts in Mathematics 11). Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0-387-90328-3.
- Conway, John B. (1997). A Course in Functional Analysis. Springer. ISBN 0-387-97245-5.
- Conway, John B. (1996). On Being a Department Head: A Personal View. American Mathematical Society. ISBN 0-8218-0615-7.
- Conway, John B. (1991). The Theory of Subnormal Operators. American Mathematical Society. ISBN 0-8218-1536-9.
- Conway, John B. (1973). "A complete Boolean algebra of subspaces which is not reflexive". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79: 720-722.
