Emil Grosswald
Emil Grosswald (born December 15, 1912 in Bucharest , † April 11, 1989 in Narberth , Pennsylvania ) was a Romanian-American mathematician who mainly dealt with number theory and analysis.
Life
Grosswald made his diploma in mathematics at the University of Bucharest in 1933 . As a Jew, he fled the National Socialists and anti-Semitism to France at the end of the 1930s, where he continued his studies in Paris and Montpelier. After the occupation of France in 1940 he fled Paris via Spain to Havana in Cuba (where he published as EG Garnea during the Second World War) and went to Puerto Rico in 1946 and to the USA in 1948. In 1950 he received his doctorate with Hans Rademacher at the University of Pennsylvania ( On the structure of some subgroups of the modular groups ). There he also taught from 1950 to 1968. He was then a professor at Temple University , where he retired in 1980. He was visiting scholar and visiting professor at the University of Saskatchewan (1950), the Institute for Advanced Study (1951), the Technion (1980/81), Swarthmore College (1982) and the University of Pennsylvania (1984).
Grosswald specialized in analytical number theory influenced by his teacher Hans Rademacher.
From 1965 to 1968 he was on the Council of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). In 1962 he gave a lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm ( On a theorem of Petersson and Meinardus ).
Grosswald published the collected works of his teacher Rademacher in 1974 and, with Joseph Lehner and Morris Newman in 1973, his Topics in analytic number theory in the basic doctrines of the mathematical sciences .
He was married to Elizabeth Rosenthal and had two daughters.
Fonts
- with Hans Rademacher: Dedekind Sums , Carus Mathematical Monographs, MAA 1972 (after the Hedrick Lecture by Rademacher in Boulder (Colorado) , which Grosswald thought in 1963 to be the sick Rademacher)
- Bessel Polynomials , Springer Verlag 1978
- Topics from the theory of numbers , 2nd edition, Birkhäuser 2008 (first edition 1984)
- Representations of Integers as Sums of Squares , Springer Verlag 1985
literature
- Emil Grosswald, Marvin Isadore Knopp , Mark Sheingorn (Editors) A Tribute to Emil Grosswald: Number Theory and Related Analysis , American Mathematical Society (Contemporary Mathematics), 1993
Web links
- Literature by and about Emil Grosswald in the catalog of the German National Library
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Emil Grosswald. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
- Emil Grosswald Papers, University of Texas
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grosswald, Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bucharest |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 11, 1989 |
| Place of death | Narberth |