Bonnie Stewart
Bonnie Madison Stewart (July 10, 1914 – April 15, 1994)[1] was a professor of mathematics at Michigan State University from 1940 to 1980.[2] He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1941, under the supervision of Cyrus Colton MacDuffee.[3]
Contributions
Number theory
In 1952, the first edition of his book, Theory of Numbers, was published.[4] Stewart's contributions to number theory also include a complete characterization of the practical numbers in terms of their factorizations, which he published in 1954, a year before Wacław Sierpiński's independent discovery of the same result.
Geometry
In 1970 he published a book,
Selected publications
- B. M. Stewart, Theory of Numbers, Macmillan, 1952. 2nd ed., Macmillan, 1964.
- B. M. Stewart (1954), "Sums of distinct divisors", MR 0064800.
- B. M. Stewart, Adventures Among the Toroids (1970) This 5"x13" edition was self-published by the author (printed by The John Henry Company) and has no ISBN.
- B. M. Stewart, Adventures Among the Toroids, Revised Second Edition (1980) 11"x8.5". ISBN 978-0-686-11936-4 [1]
References
- ^ Bonnie Madison Stewart, findagrave.com, retrieved 2016-11-21.
- ^ a b "Bonnie Stewarts Hohlkörper", by Christoph Pöppe, Spektrumdirekt (website of the German edition of Scientific American).
- ^ Bonnie Madison Stewart at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- MR0050599.
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