Melvyn Nathanson
Melvyn Bernard Nathanson (born October 10, 1944 in Philadelphia ) is an American mathematician who deals with number theory.
Nathanson received his bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1965 and his master's degree from the University of Rochester in 1968 , where he also received his doctorate in 1972 with Sanford Segal with a thesis on Difference Operators on Sequences Over Groups . As a post-doctoral student , he was at Lomonossow University in 1972/73 . 1971 to 1981 he was Professor of Mathematics at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. In 1975/76 he was an associate professor at Brooklyn College and visiting scholar at Rockefeller University . 1981 to 1986 he was a professor at Rutgers University and dean of the graduate school there. Since 1986 he has been a professor at Lehman College, City University of New York . There he was Provost and Vice President Academic Affairs from 1986 to 1991.
He wrote a standard two-volume textbook on additive number theory . He published several times with Paul Erdős (has Erdős number 1). He is co-organizer of the inter-university New York Number Theory Seminar.
In 1974/75 and 1990/91 he was André Weil's assistant at the Institute for Advanced Study . In 1977/78 he was an Honorary Research Fellow at Harvard University .
He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the American Mathematical Society, and the New York Academy of Sciences . He also translated from Russian, such as an introduction to analytical number theory by Anatoly Alexejewitsch Karazuba (Springer 1993) and the samizdat essay by Gregory Freiman on the situation of Jewish mathematicians in the Soviet Union in 1979.
Fonts
- Additive Number Theory: The Classical Bases , Graduate Texts in Mathematics 164, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1996.
- Additive Number Theory: Inverse Problems and the Geometry of Sumsets , Graduate Texts in Mathematics 165, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1996.
- Elementary Methods in Number Theory , Graduate Texts in Mathematics 195, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2000
- Editor: Unusual applications of number theory , AMS, DIMACS Series, 2004
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Melvyn Nathanson in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nathanson, Melvyn |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nathanson, Melvyn Bernard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia |