Charles Boudewijn Huijsmans 1946–1997

Abstract

C.B. "Pay" Huijsmans was born in Voorburg (The Netherlands) on May 7, 1946. After finishing the Gymnasium in 1964, Pay entered the University of Leiden majoring in mathematics. In 1970, he started to work on his Ph.D. thesis as a student of Prof. A.C. Zaanen. At that time the Functional Analysis group in Leiden was a center of great activity, particularly in the areas of Banach function spaces, integral operators and the theory of Riesz spaces (vector lattices).

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