George Andrews (mathematician)

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George Eyre Andrews
Andrews in 1973
Born (1938-12-04) December 4, 1938 (age 85)
Salem, Oregon, U.S.
Alma mater
  • MA
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  • PhD
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Known forRamanujan's lost notebook
Scientific career
FieldsAnalysis and Combinatorics
InstitutionsPennsylvania State University
Doctoral advisorHans Rademacher

George Eyre Andrews (born December 4, 1938)[1] is an American mathematician working in special functions, number theory, analysis and combinatorics.

Education and career

He is currently an Evan Pugh Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University.[2][3] He did his undergraduate studies at Oregon State University[2] and received his PhD in 1964 at the University of Pennsylvania where his advisor was Hans Rademacher.[1][4]

During 2008–2009 he was president of the American Mathematical Society.[5]

Contributions

Andrews's contributions include several monographs and over 250 research and popular articles on

Ramanujan's Lost Notebook.[2] He is interested in mathematical pedagogy.[2]

His book The Theory of Partitions is the standard reference on the subject of integer partitions.[1]

He has advanced mathematics in the theories of partitions and q-series. His work at the interface of number theory and combinatorics has also led to many important applications in physics.[9]

Awards and honors

In 2003 Andrews was elected a member of the

National Academy of Sciences.[2] He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997.[10] In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.[11] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[12]

He was given honorary doctorates from the

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 2014[6][13][9]

Publications

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 9780821891254
    , Andrews is generally recognized as the world's leading authority on partitions and is the author of the foremost treatise on the subject.
  2. ^ a b c d e Inaugural Biography Article at the National Academy of Sciences.
  3. ^ Evan Pugh Professors Archived 2013-12-03 at the Wayback Machine, PSU, retrieved 2013-11-21.
  4. ^ George Andrews at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ AMS presidents, a timeline
  6. ^ a b O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "George Andrews (mathematician)", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  7. ^ The work of George Andrews: a Madison perspective – by Richard Askey, in "The Andrews Festschrift (Maratea, 1998)", Sem. Lothar. Combin. vol. 42 (1999), Art. B42b, 24 pp.
  8. ISBN 9788132207672
    , George Andrews of the Pennsylvania State University, the world authority on partitions and q-geometric series.
  9. ^ a b "University of Illinois commencement ceremony to take place May 17 at Memorial Stadium (honorary doctorates for George E. Andrews and Phillip Allen Sharp)". Campus News (illinois.edu). 5 May 2014.
  10. ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
  11. ^ Andrew, George E. (1998). "Mathematics education: Reform or renewal?". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. III. pp. 719–721.
  12. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-03.
  13. ^ Honorary doctorates for Andrews, Askey and Berndt
  14. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1979-14556-7
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  15. ^ Glass, Darren (5 April 2005). "Review of Integer Partitions by George E. Andrews and Kimmo Eriksson". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
  16. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-06-01110-4
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  17. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-00-00879-X
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