{{Short description|English mathematician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''John Robert Ringrose''' (born 21 December 1932) is an English mathematician working on operator algebras who introduced nest algebras. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1977.<ref>{{cite web|title=Fellows|url=http://royalsociety.org/about-us/fellowship/fellows/|work=Royal Society|accessdate=3 March 2012}}</ref> In 1962, Ringrose won the Adams Prize.

==Works== * (with Richard V. Kadison): ''Fundamentals of the Theory of Operator Algebras'', 4 vols., Academic Press 1983, 1986, 1991, 1992 (2nd edn. American Mathematical Society 1997) * ''Compact non self-adjoint operators'', van Nostrand 1971

==See also== * Pisier–Ringrose inequality

==References== {{reflist}} *{{MacTutor|id=Ringrose}} *{{MathGenealogy|id=42553}}

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