Harold P. Boas
Harold P. Boas | |
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| Born | June 26, 1954 (age 69) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (1976) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1980) |
| Awards | Chauvenet Prize (2009) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Columbia University Texas A&M University |
| Doctoral advisor | Norberto Kerzman |
| Website | www |
Harold P. Boas (born June 26, 1954) is an American mathematician.
Life
Boas was born in
Ralph P. Boas, Jr and Mary L. Boas
.
Education
He received his A.B. and S.M. degrees in
Ph.D. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980 under the direction of Norberto Kerzman.[1]
Teaching
Boas was a
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California
.
Publications and awards
He has published over thirty papers, including Reflections on the arbelos (for which he won the
Lester R. Ford Award (2007)[2] of the Mathematical Association of America and a co-winner of the Stefan Bergman Prize (with Emil J. Straube, 1995) of the American Mathematical Society.[3] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[4]
He revised and updated his father's book A Primer of Real Functions for the fourth edition.
References
- ^ Harold P. Boas at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ JSTOR 27641891.
- ^ "1995 Bergman Trust Prize Awarded" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 42 (7): 778–779, 1995
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-10.
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