George Springer (mathematician)

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George Springer
Born(1924-09-03)September 3, 1924
DiedFebruary 18, 2019(2019-02-18) (aged 94)
NationalityAmerican
Education
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics, computer science
Institutions
Doctoral advisorLars Ahlfors

George Springer (September 3, 1924 – February 18, 2019) was an American mathematician and computer scientist. He was professor emeritus of computer science at Indiana University Bloomington.[1]

Springer is perhaps best known as the coauthor with

LISP. Three of the pioneering books for Scheme are The Scheme Programming Language (1982) by R. Kent Dybvig, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (1985) by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman
with Julie Sussman, and Scheme and the Art of Computer Programming (1989) by Springer and Friedman.

Career

Springer earned his bachelor's degree in 1945 from Case Western Reserve University (then named "Case Institute of Technology") and his master's degree in 1946 from Brown University. He earned his PhD in 1949 from Harvard University with thesis The Coefficient Problem for Univalent Mappings of the Exterior of the Unit Circle under Lars Ahlfors.[2]

From 1949 to 1951 Springer was a

Imperial College
in London.

Springer began his career working in function theory (of one and several complex variables) and wrote a textbook on Riemann surfaces. In the 1980s he turned more toward computer science, working on programming languages.

Personal life and death

Springer was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1924, to a family of Jewish immigrants from

Poland.[3][4] He met his wife Annemarie (née Keiner) while at Harvard University. They were married from 1950 until her death in 2011, and had three children. Springer died on February 18, 2019, aged 94.[5]

Works

References

  1. ^ George Springer's Hyplan
  2. ^ George Springer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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  4. ^ Biographical information from American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2005
  5. ^ George Springer 94 Hoosier Times
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