Joseph Lehner

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Joseph Lehner (born October 29, 1912 in New York City , † August 5, 2013 ) was an American mathematician .

Lehner received his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania under Hans Rademacher in 1941 (A partition function connected with modulus 5). During World War II he was involved in the Manhattan Project , for which he received an award. He was a professor at the University of Pittsburgh .

In 1975 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study .

With AOL Atkin he developed the Atkin-Lehner theory of modular forms .

With Emil Grosswald and Morris Newman, he published the Topics in analytic number theory of his teacher Rademacher in 1973 .

Fonts

  • Discontinuous groups and automorphic functions. Mathematical Surveys, American Mathematical Society 1964
  • A short course in automorphic functions. Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1966
  • Modular function theory in arithmetic and analysis. Montreal: Canadian Mathematical Congress 1968
  • Lectures on modular forms. National Bureau of Standards, Washington DC 1969

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World Who's who in Science: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Scientists from Antiquity to the Present , 1968, p. 1019
  2. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ Membership Book of IAS 1980
  4. ↑ In the 1950s he published with GM Wing: Transport theory of neutrons. In: Comm. Pure Appl. Math. Volume 8, 1955, pp. 217-234
  5. ↑ Atkin, J. Lehner: Hecke operators on . In: Mathematical Annals. Volume 185, 1970, pp. 134-160, online
personal data
SURNAME Lehner, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 2013