Carl Olds
Carl Douglas Olds (born May 11, 1912 in Wanganui , † November 11, 1979 in Santa Clara , California ) was a New Zealand-American mathematician.
Olds studied at Stanford University , where he received his doctorate from James Victor Uspensky in 1943 ( On the Number of Representations of the Square of an Integer as the Sum of an Odd Number of Squares ). From 1935 to 1940 and in the summer of 1942 he was an instructor at Stanford University and from 1940 to 1945 Assistant Professor at Purdue University . From 1945 until his retirement he was a professor at California State University in San José .
He studied number theory and wrote a popular book on continued fractions .
In 1973 he received the Chauvenet Prize for The simple continued fraction expansion of e .
Fonts
- Continued Fractions , Random House 1963
- with A. Lax, G. Davidoff Geometry of numbers , New Library Series 41, Mathematical Association of America 2000
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ American Mathematical Monthly, Volume 77, 1970, pp. 868-874
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Olds, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Olds, Carl Douglas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wanganui |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 11, 1979 |
| Place of death | Santa Clara (California) |