Glen E. Baxter

Glen Earl Baxter (March 19, 1930 – March 30, 1983) was an American mathematician.

Glen E. Baxter
Born	March 19, 1930 Minneapolis, USA
Died	March 30, 1983 (aged 53)
Citizenship	USA
Alma mater	University of Minnesota
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematician
Institutions	University of California at San Diego University of Aarhus Purdue University
Doctoral advisor	Monroe D. Donsker

Baxter's fields of research include probability theory, combinatorial analysis, statistical mechanics and functional analysis. He is known for the Baxter strong limit theorem. Lately, his 1960 work[1] on the derivation of a specific operator identity that later bore his name, the Rota–Baxter identity, and emanated from some of the fundamental results of the famous probabilist Frank Spitzer in random walk theory has received attention in fields as remote as renormalization theory in perturbative quantum field theory.[2][3]

In 1983 the Glen E. Baxter Memorial Fund was established by family and friends at Purdue University.[4]

See also

• Baxter permutation

Notes

1. Baxter, G. (1960). "An analytic problem whose solution follows from a simple algebraic identity". Pacific J. Math. 10 (3): 731–742. doi:10.2140/pjm.1960.10.731. MR 0119224.
2. K. Ebrahimi-Fard, L. Guo, Rota–Baxter Algebras in Renormalization of Perturbative Quantum Field Theory, Fields Institute Communications, 50, 47–105, (2007).
3. A. Connes, D. Kreimer, Renormalization in quantum field theory and the Riemann–Hilbert problem I. The Hopf algebra structure of graphs and the main theorem, Commun. in Math. Phys., 210, 249–273, (2000).
4. Purdue University (Department of Statistics): Recipients of the Baxter Award

External links

• Glen E. Baxter at the Mathematics Genealogy Project