Norman Levinson

Norman Levinson
Born	(1912-08-11)11 August 1912 MIT
Known for	Levinson recursion Levinson's inequality
Awards	Bôcher Memorial Prize (1953) Chauvenet Prize (1971)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Thesis	On the Non-Vanishing of a Function[1]
Doctoral advisor	Norbert Wiener[1]
Doctoral students	Violet B. Haas Raymond Redheffer Harold S. Shapiro

Norman Levinson (August 11, 1912 in

.

He received both his

upon his return regardless of whatever he produced at Cambridge. Within the first four months in Cambridge, he had already produced two papers. In 1935, MIT awarded him with the PhD in mathematics.

His death in 1975 was caused by a brain tumor. He was married since 1938; his widow Zipporah died at age 93 in 2009. He had two daughters and four grandchildren. Norman Levinson's doctoral students include Raymond Redheffer and Harold Shapiro.^[1]

See also

• Levinson recursion
• Levinson's inequality
• Levinson's theorem

Publications

• Levinson, Norman (1940), Gap and density theorems (AMS Colloquium Publications vol. 26), New York: Amer. Math. Soc.,
  ISBN 0-8218-1026-X^[4]
• Coddington, Earl A.; Levinson, Norman (1955), Theory of ordinary differential equations, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York-Toronto-London,
  MR 0069338^[5]
• Levinson, Norman (1998), Nohel, John A.; Sattinger, David H. (eds.), Selected papers of Norman Levinson. Vol. 1, Contemporary Mathematicians, Boston, MA: Birkhäuser Boston,
  MR 1491093
• Levinson, Norman (1998), Nohel, John A.; Sattinger, David H. (eds.), Selected papers of Norman Levinson. Vol. 2, Contemporary Mathematicians, Boston, MA: Birkhäuser Boston,
  MR 1491093

References

External links

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Norman Levinson", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews