Marshall Harvey Stone
1903 - 1989
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Stone is best known for the Stone-Weierstrass theorem on uniform approximation of continuous functions by polynomials.
Mathematicians born in the same country
| Honours awarded to Marshall Stone (Click below for those honoured in this way) | |
| AMS Colloquium Lecturer | 1939 |
| American Maths Society President | 1943 - 1944 |
| AMS Gibbs Lecturer | 1956 |
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