Dr. David Boyd
Fellow
Current Employer
The University of British Columbia
Election Year
1980
Academy
Académie des sciences
Discipline
Mathematics and Computer Sciences
Department
Department of Mathematics
Keywords
Mathematics, mathematical analysis, number theory, geometry, probability, cryptography, applied mathematics
David W. Boyd is a versatile mathematician whose main mathematical contributions are in real analysis and number theory. First, in his thesis Boyd characterized all rearrangement invariant subspaces of the space of measurable functions on the line on which the Hilbert transform is bounded. Lately Boyd showed that Salem's construction of Salem numbers yields all Salem numbers. Boyd, a mathematician with an international reputation richly deserves to be elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada.