Joseph Lawrence Taylor (7 April 1941 - 28 July 2016) was an American mathematician,[1] specializing in Banach algebras and non-commutative harmonic analysis.
[2] Taylor received from Louisiana State University in 1963 his bachelor's degree and in 1964 his Ph.D. under Pasquale Porcelli with thesis The structure of convolution measure algebras.
In 1974 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
In 1975 he received for his article Measure algebras the Leroy P. Steele Prize.
[4] At the University of Utah, Taylor was from 1979 to 1982 the chair of the mathematics department, from 1985 to 1987 the dean of the College of Science, and from 1987 to 1990 the vice-president of Academic Affairs.