William LeVeque

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William Judson LeVeque (born August 9, 1923 in Boulder , † December 1, 2007 ) was an American mathematician who dealt with number theory .

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LeVeque studied at the University of Colorado (Bachelor's degree in 1944, Master's degree in 1945) and received his doctorate in 1947 from Cornell University under Burton W. Jones ( On the Distribution of Values ​​of Number-Theoretic Functions ). From 1947 to 1949 he was an instructor at Harvard University and then at the University of Michigan , where he became a professor. In 1957 he became a Sloan Research Fellow . From 1970 he was a professor at Claremont Graduate University .

From 1977 to 1988 he was Executive Director of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and from 1970 to 1974 he was a US delegate to the International Mathematical Union .

As a number theorist, he dealt with equal distribution, Diophantine approximation , transcendent numbers and wrote several textbooks on number theory that are known in the USA. From the project to bring the history of number theory by Leonard Dickson (which ends in 1910) up to date, the AMS edited six volumes of Reviews in Number Theory in 1973 , in which the reviews of Mathematical Reviews from 1940 to 1972 sorted by subject area. In 1965 he was also editor of the Mathematical Reviews at the American Mathematical Society.

After his retirement he lived on his sailboat on the east coast and in the Caribbean for three years and then moved to Bainbridge Island .

His son Randall J. LeVeque is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Washington . LeVeque's graduate students include Underwood Dudley .

Fonts (selection)

as an author
  • Topics in Number Theory . Dover Publ., Minola, NY 2002, ISBN 0-486-42539-8 (2 vols ., Reprinted . Reading ed., Mass. 1956).
  • Elementary Theory of Numbers . Dover Publ., Mineola, NY 1990, ISBN 0-486-66348-5 (reprinted from Reading Ed., Mass. 1962).
  • Fundamentals of Number Theory . Dover Publ., Mineola, NY 1996, ISBN 0-486-68906-9 (reprinted from Reading Ed., Mass. 1977).
as editor
  • Studies in Number Theory (Studies in Mathematics; Vol. 6). AMS, Washington, DC 1969.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ William LeVeque in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. ^ Past Fellows. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, accessed June 3, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME LeVeque, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES LeVeque, William Judson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Boulder , Colorado
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 2007