Kenneth R. Davidson
University Professor Emeritus 
FRSC, FIF, CMSF

Department of Pure Mathematics
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1
CANADA

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I retired in 2021 and am no longer taking students or postdocs.

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Vita

Recent Papers

Students

Books

Functional Analysis and Operator Algebras CMS/CAIMS Books in Mathematics Series 13, Springer, 2025.

Integer and Polynomial Algebra, with Matthew Satriano, Mathematical World Series 31, AMS, 2023.

Real Analysis and Applications, with Allan Donsig, Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer, 2009.

C*-Algebras by Example, Fields Institute Monograph 6, AMS, 1996.

Nest Algebras, free pdf

Some Course Notes

Rigorous Calculus: Notes for Math 147 and 148

PMATH 351 Course Notes (Analysis on metric spaces)

PMath 451 Course Notes (Measure theory)

Editorial Boards

Journal of Operator Theory

Integral Equations and Operator Theory

Acta Scientiarum Mathematicarum (Szeged)

Illinois Journal of Mathematics

The Israel Halperin Prize

Other Web points of interest:

The Canadian Mathematical Society

The Fields Institute for Research in the Mathematical Sciences

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Trace your mathematical genealogy

Find your Erdos Number

Mathematics in Fiction

A long tribute to my Ph.D. supervisor William Arveson or the abridged version in the A.M.S. Notices