Philip J. Davis

Philip J. Davis (born 2 January 1923 in Lawrence ( Massachusetts)) is an American applied mathematician and writer.

Davis received his doctorate in 1950 at Ralph Boas at Harvard University and was then at the National Bureau of Standards, where he was Head of the Department of Numerical Mathematics and worked on the publication of the " Handbook of Mathematical Functions" by Milton Abramowitz and Irene Stegun. He is at Brown University, where he is now Professor Emeritus since 1963.

He became known for his mathematical essay collection "The mathematical experience" from 1981 with Reuben Hersh, which enters ( followed by a similar book " Descartes Dream" ) and in 1983 won the National Book Award on philosophical and historical issues to do the math. His book "Methods of numerical integration" with Philip Rabinowitz was long a standard work on numerical integration.

In 1963 he received the Chauvenet Prize. He was a regular columnist for the SIAM News. In 1956 he was Guggenheim Fellow. In 1986 he was awarded the George Pólya Award, 1990 Hedrick Award and the 1982 Lester Randolph Ford Award. In 1997 he became an honorary doctorate from the University of Roskilde.

Writings

  • With Rabinowitz: Methods of numerical integration, Blaisdell 1967, Academic Press, 1975, 1984
  • Interpolation and approximation, Blaisdell 1963, Dover 1975
  • The Black Function and circulant matrices, MAA 1974 1979
  • The education of a mathematician 2000 ( autobiography)
  • Mathematical Encounters of the second child, Birkhäuser 1996
  • With Hersh: The mathematical experience, Houghton Mifflin and Birkhäuser 1981, Birkhauser 1995 ( introduction of Gian- Carlo Rota )
  • With Hersh: Descartes Dream - The World According to Mathematics, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1986, Houghton Mifflin 1987
  • David Park: No way -the nature of the impossible, Freeman 1987
  • Spirals: From Theodorus to Chaos, AKPeters 1993 ( originated from the Hendrick Lectures of MAA)
  • Mathematics of matrices, Blaisdell 1965, Warrior 1984
  • Circulant matrices, Wiley 1979, 2nd edition 1994 Chelsea
  • The lore of large numbers, Random House 1961

Fiction:

  • The Thread: a mathematical yarn, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1983, 1989
  • Thomas Gray: Philosopher Cat, Boston, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1988, German Pembroke's cat
  • Thomas Gray in Copenhagen - in Which the philosopher cat meets the ghost of Hans Christian Andersen, New York, Copernicus 1995, dt Magnifikatz
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