Donald Newman

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Donald Joseph Newman (born July 27, 1930 in Brooklyn , † March 28, 2007 in Philadelphia ) was an American mathematician.

Newman attended Stuyvesant High School in New York and was very interested in mathematics even then. As a student, he won the Putnam competition three times in a row. He studied at City College of New York and New York University and received his doctorate from Harvard University in 1958 with David Widder (Some aspects of polynomial approximation). He has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Brown University, and Yeshiva University and was a Distinguished Professor at Bar Ilan University . From 1976 until his retirement in 1994 he taught at Temple University .

Newman dealt with complex analysis, (analytical) number theory and approximation theory (e.g. splines), combinatorics, functional analysis and entertainment mathematics. He became known through a simple proof of the prime number theorem . His work on approximation theory was also important, including an essay from 1964 on the rational approximation of the absolute value function and his work on Müntz-Jackson approximation.

He was also known as a math problem solver and was a regular contributor to the American Mathematical Monthly in the field.

Fonts

  • Analytic Number Theory, Graduate Texts in Mathematics 177, Springer, 1998
  • with Robert Feinerman: Polynomial Approximation, Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins 1974
  • Approximation by rational functions, American Mathematical Society 1979
  • A problem seminar, Springer 1982
  • with Joseph Bak: Complex Analysis, Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer, 3rd edition 2010 (first edition 1982)

literature

  • In Memoriam Donald J. Newman (1930-2007), Journal of Approximation Theory, Volume 154, 2008, pp. 37-58, pdf

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Donald Newman in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. ^ Newman, A simple proof of the prime number theorem, American Mathematical Monthly, Volume 87, 1980, pp. 693-696
  3. ^ Newman, Rational Approximation to , Michigan J. of Mathematics, Volume 11, 1964, pp. 11-14
personal data
SURNAME Newman, Donald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Newman, Donald Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 2007
Place of death Philadelphia