John Riordan (mathematician)
John Riordan (born April 22, 1903 in Derby (Connecticut) , † August 27, 1988 in Scituate (Massachusetts) ) was an American mathematician who dealt with combinatorics .
Life
Riordan graduated from Yale University . From 1926 he did research at Bell Laboratories . In 1968 he retired. He then taught at Rockefeller University .
He was active in literary circles and published a book of short stories as early as 1929 (On the make). He was the editor of literary journals for the New School of Social Research in New York (Salient, The Figure in the Carpet).
He was married to publisher and literary agent Mavis McIntosh. With her he had two daughters.
Fonts
- Introduction to combinatorial analysis, Princeton UP 1958, 1980
- Stochastic service systems, Wiley 1962
- Combinatorial identities, Wiley 1968
- with Neil Sloane : The enumeration of rooted trees by total height, J. Austral. Math. Soc., Vol. 10, 1969, pp. 278-282
Web links
- Obituary in the NY Times , August 31, 1988
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Riordan, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Derby (Connecticut) |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 27, 1988 |
| Place of death | Scituate (Massachusetts) |