Person: Stone (2), Marshall Harvey

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Stone is best known for the Stone-Weierstrass theorem on uniform approximation of continuous functions by polynomials.

Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):

Born 8 April 1903, New York, USA. Died 9 January 1989, Madras (now Chennai), India.

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References

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  1. O’Connor, John J; Robertson, Edmund F: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive