Robert I. Jewett
Robert Israel Jewett (* 1937 in Providence , Rhode Island ) is an American mathematician who specializes in combinatorics and analysis.
Jewett received his bachelor's degree from Caltech and received his PhD under Karl Stromberg at the University of Oregon in 1963 ( Partial Differentiation on Abelian Groups ). In 1963/64 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study . He was a professor at Western Washington University since 1970 .
He is known for the Hales-Jewett (1963, with Alfred W. Hales ) theorem from Ramsey theory , proven when he was a student. The theorem ensures the existence of regular structures with sufficiently high dimensions and was considered and proven by them for the example of a generalized game of the tic-tac-toe type. If you play the game on a sufficiently high-dimensional cube with a given side length n and number of players c, there is always a winning solution (row, column or diagonal of the same color).
He also dealt with coding theory, measure theory and ergodic theory.
In 1971 he and Hales and others were among the first to receive the George Pólya Prize .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dates of birth according to the IAS 1980 membership book
- ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Faculty Directory
- ^ Hales, Jewett Regularity and positional games , Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 1963, 106: 222-229
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jewett, Robert I. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jewett, Robert Israel (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Providence , Rhode Island |