George Andrews (mathematician)

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George Eyre Andrews (born December 4, 1938 in Salem , Oregon ) is an American mathematician who deals with analysis , combinatorics and number theory.

Andrews received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1964 with Hans Rademacher . He has been the Evan Pugh Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University , University Park since 1981 , where he has been an Assistant Professor since 1964. From 1982 to 1992 he was also an adjunct professor at the University of Waterloo . Among other things, he was visiting professor at the University of Strasbourg (1983), at the New Zealand Mathematical Society and at the Australian National University (1983).

Andrews was particularly concerned with the theory of partitions (disintegrations), with special functions and hypergeometric series. Among other things, he published the “lost notebook” by S. Ramanujan , which he found in the archives of Cambridge University in 1976 .

In 1990/91 he was a visiting scientist at the Thomas Watson Research Center at IBM . In 1982/83 he was a Guggenheim Fellow.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1997). In 2009 he became president of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), of which he is a fellow. In 1999 he received the Centennial Award from the University of Pennsylvania and in 1980 he gave the Hendrick Lecture of the Mathematical Association of America. He is a member of the Australian, New Zealand and Edinburgh Mathematical Societies.

Andrews has been married since 1960 and has three children.

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SURNAME Andrews, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andrews, George Eyre (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Salem , Oregon, USA