Arnold Ross (mathematician)
Arnold Ephraim Ross (* as Arnold Ephraim Chaimovich on August 24, 1906 in Chicago ; † September 25, 2002 there ) was an American mathematician and mathematics teacher.
Ross was the son of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants and was born in Chicago in 1906, but moved to Odessa with his mother in 1909 . There he was a student of Samuil Ossipowitsch Schatunowski and also attended university. The period of his youth was marked by political unrest and hunger. In 1922 he returned to the USA and was accepted as a student by EH Moore at the University of Chicago despite the lack of formal qualifications (he also had to take English lessons) . Moore's pedagogical methods greatly influenced Ross. In 1931 he received his doctorate in number theory under Leonard Dickson ( On Representation of Integers by Indefinite Ternary Quadratic Forms ). As a post-doctoral student , he was with Eric Temple Bell at Caltech . He then taught at an experimental school (People's Junior College) in Chicago during the Great Depression. In 1931 he married his wife Bertha (Bee) Horecker. After her death in 1983, he married Madeleine Green in 1990. In 1935 he became an assistant professor at St. Louis University . During World War II he worked for the US Navy. In 1946 he became head of the mathematics department at the University of Notre Dame . During this time he brought Paul Erdös to the university. In 1963 he became professor and head of the mathematics department at Ohio State University (OSU), and in 1976 he retired.
He is known for a teacher training program and summer school in number theory for students, which he supervised from 1957 to 2000 when he suffered a stroke. Ross also helped establish similar programs in West Germany, India, and Australia in the 1970s, and inspired similar programs at other US and Canadian universities.
In 1984 he received an honorary doctorate from Denison University and in 1985 he received the Distinguished Service Award from the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and in 1998 the AMS Citation for Public Service. In 1988 he became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1974 he received the OSU's Distinguished Teaching Award. In 1993 the American Mathematical Society (AMS) founded the Arnold Ross Lecture.
literature
- Interview, Notices AMS, August 2001, pdf
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arnold Ross in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ross, Arnold |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ross, Arnold Ephraim; Chaimovich, Arnold Ephraim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 24, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 25, 2002 |
| Place of death | Chicago |