Milton Abramowitz
Milton Abramowitz (born 1915 in Brooklyn , New York City , † July 5, 1958 ) was an American mathematician.
Life
Abramowitz received his bachelor's degree in 1937 and his master's degree in 1940 , both from Brooklyn College. In 1948 he received his Ph. D. in mathematics from New York University . His doctoral supervisor was the German-American mathematician Kurt Friedrichs .
From 1938 he worked in the applied mathematics department at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS). In the early 1950s, the Math Tables Project came up with the idea of publishing a handbook of mathematical functions. He was appointed editor. To this end, he assigned the task of writing the individual chapters to various mathematicians. He himself wrote the chapters Elementary Analytical Methods , Struve Functions and Related Functions and Coulomb Wave Functions . In July 1958, twelve chapters had already been completed when Abramowitz died unexpectedly. Irene Stegun took over the direction and published the Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables in 1964.
The main work of creating reliable mathematical tables was based on the Works Progress Administration project , a job creation program under US President Franklin D. Roosevelt , which was launched as a result of the high unemployment of the Great Depression .
Works
- Miscellaneous physical tables, Planck's radiation functions and electronic functions . Univ. Microfilms, Ann Arbor 1941
- with Arnold Noah Lowan: Table of the integrals . In: Journal of Mathematics & Physics . Volume 22, Issue 1, 1943
- On backflow of a viscous fluid in a diverging channel . 1949
- with Irene Stegun : Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables . National Bureau of Standards, Washington DC 1964
literature
- Ronald F. Boisvert and Daniel W. Lozier: Handbook of Mathematical Functions (PDF; 966 kB) . In: David R. Lide (ed.): A Century of Excellence in Measurements, Standards, and Technology . US Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, [Washington DC] 2001, pp. 135-39
- Milton Abramowitz (1915-1958) . In: Mathematical Tables and other Aids to Computation . The National Research Council, Washington DC 1958, Vol. 12, No. 63, p. 264
Web links
- Literature by and about Milton Abramowitz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Milton Abramowitz in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abramowitz, Milton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn , New York |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th July 1958 |