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Edwin Hewitt

died 25 years ago

21 June 1999

Edwin Hewitt made fundamental contributions to functional analysis, measure theory, and topology as well as Diophantine approximation, the structure of semigroups and abstract harmonic analysis. He is well-known for his discovery, in collaboration with Leonard Jimmie Savage, of the Hewitt-Savage zero-one law.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hewitt_Edwin/