Isaac Namioka papers, approximately 1951-2016

Isaac Namioka (April 25, 1928-September 25, 2019) was a Japanese-American mathematician who worked in general topology and functional analysis. He was born in Tōno, Japan. He attended Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas to receive an BA in Mathematics in 1951, then attended the University of Kansas to receive an MA in Mathematics in 1953. He received a PhD in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkely, in 1956 with the dissertation "On Partially Ordered Linear Topological Spaces" under the supervision of John L. Kelley. As a graduate student, Namioka married Chinese-American mathematics student Lensey Namioka.

He was an instructor at Cornell starting in 1957, then moved to the University of Washington in 1963 where he became an Emeritus Professor in 1996. Namioka had visiting positions at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey (1962-1963), Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Kyoto, Japan (1968-1969), the University of Warwick (1975-1976), and University College London (1985-1986). Namioka, along with other University of Washington mathematicians, published under the collective pseudonym of the fictitious mathematician "John Rainwater."

Source: Biographical materials in collection, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Namioka

John Rainwater was the fictitious mathematician created as a student prank at the University of Washington. In 1952, John Rainwater was invented and enrolled in a mathematics course by graduate students who were in possession of a duplicate student-registration form. Starting in 1959 mathematicians published under the pseudonym of John Rainwater. These included John R. Isbell, Robert R. Phelps, Peter D. Morris, Isaac Namioka, David Preiss, Irving Glicksberg, Edgar Asplund, and others. Papers were published under the name Rainwater mainly in functional analysis, particularly in the geometric theory of Banach spaces and in convex functions. Rainwater's theorem is an important result in summability theory and functional analysis. The University of Washington's seminar in functional analysis is called the Rainwater seminar, and the associated Rainwater notes have influenced Banach-space theory and convex analysis.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rainwater