George Springer (mathematician)
George Springer | |
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Born | |
Died | February 18, 2019 Newton, Massachusetts, U.S. | (aged 94)
Nationality | American |
Education | |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics, computer science |
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Doctoral advisor | Lars 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
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
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
Works
- Springer, G. (1951). "The coefficient problem for schlicht mappings of the exterior of the unit circle". Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 70 (3): 421–450. MR 0041935.
- Springer, George (1963). "Fredholm eigenvalues and quasiconformal mapping" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 69 (6): 810–811. MR 0161975.
- from Springer's lectures with notes prepared by Günter Scheja, Arnold Oberschelp, and Hans Rüdiger Wiehle: Einführung in die Topologie, Münster, Aschendorff 1955
- Introduction to Riemann Surfaces, Addison-Wesley 1957;[6] 2nd edition, Chelsea 1981; 3rd edition, American Mathematical Society, 2001
- with Daniel P. Friedman: Scheme and the Art of Programming, MIT Press 1989, 9th printing 1997
References
- ^ George Springer's Hyplan
- ^ George Springer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ISBN 9780698195691.
- ^ Biographical information from American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2005
- ^ George Springer 94 Hoosier Times
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