George Andrews (mathematician)
| George Eyre Andrews | |
|---|---|
| Fields | Analysis and Combinatorics |
| Institutions | Pennsylvania State University |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania |
| Doctoral advisor | Hans Rademacher |
| Known for | Ramanujan's lost notebook |
George Eyre Andrews (born December 4, 1938 in Salem, Oregon)[1] is an American mathematician working in analysis and combinatorics.
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Education and career
He is currently an Evan Pugh Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University.[2][3] He did his undergraduate studies at Oregon State University[2] and received his PhD in 1964 at the University of Pennsylvania where his advisor was Hans Rademacher.[1][4]
During 2008-2009 he was president[5] of the American Mathematical Society.
Contributions
Andrews's contributions include several monographs and over 250 research and popular articles on q-series, special functions, combinatorics and applications.[6][7] He is considered to be the world's leading expert in the theory of integer partitions.[1][8] In 1976 he discovered Ramanujan's Lost Notebook.[2] He is highly interested in mathematical pedagogy.[2]
His book The Theory of Partitions is the standard reference on the subject of integer partitions.[1]
Awards and honors
Andrews is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.[2] He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997.[9] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[10]
He was given honorary doctorates from the University of Parma in 1998, the University of Florida in 2002 the University of Waterloo in 2004, SASTRA University in Kumbakonam, India in 2012, and University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 2014[6][11][12]
Publications
- Selected Works of George E Andrews (With Commentary) (World Scientific Publishing, 2012, ISBN 978-1-84816-666-0)
- Number Theory (Dover, 1994, ISBN 0-486-68252-8)
- The Theory of Partitions (Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-521-63766-X)[13]
- Integer Partitions (with Eriksson, Kimmo) (Cambridge University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-521-84118-6)
- Ramanujan's Lost Notebook: Part I (with Bruce C. Berndt) (Springer, 2005, ISBN 0-387-25529-X)[14]
- Ramanujan's Lost Notebook: Part II, (with Bruce C. Berndt) (Springer, 2008, ISBN 978-0-387-77765-8)
- Ramanujan's Lost Notebook: Part III, (with Bruce C. Berndt) (Springer, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4614-3809-0)
- Ramanujan's Lost Notebook: Part IV, (with Bruce C. Berndt) (Springer, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4614-4080-2)
- "Special functions" by George Andrews, Richard Askey, and Ranjan Roy, Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Its Applications, The University Press, Cambridge, 1999.[15]
References
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Inaugural Biography Article at the National Academy of Sciences.
- ↑ Evan Pugh Professors, PSU, retrieved 2013-11-21.
- ↑ George Andrews at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ AMS presidents, a timeline
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found..
- ↑ The work of George Andrews: a Madison perspective – by Richard Askey, in "The Andrews Festschrift (Maratea, 1998)", Sem. Lothar. Combin. vol. 42 (1999), Art. B42b, 24 pp.
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- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-03.
- ↑ Honorary doctorates for Andrews, Askey and Berndt
- ↑ [1]
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External links
- George Andrews's homepage
- Author profile in the database zbMATH
- 1938 births
- Living people
- Combinatorialists
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- Mathematical analysts
- Number theorists
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- Oregon State University alumni
- University of Pennsylvania alumni
- Pennsylvania State University faculty
- People from Salem, Oregon
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- Additive combinatorialists
- Presidents of the American Mathematical Society
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Guggenheim Fellows
