William J. LeVeque

William Judson LeVeque ( born August 9, 1923 in Boulder, † 1 December 2007) was an American mathematician who was concerned with number theory.

Life and work

LeVeque studied at the University of Colorado ( Bachelor's degree in 1944, master's degree in 1945 ) and in 1947 received his doctorate from Cornell University with Burton W. Jones ( On the Distribution of Values ​​of Number - Theoretic Functions). 1947 to 1949 he was instructor at Harvard University and then at the University of Michigan, where he became a professor. From 1970 he was professor at the Claremont Graduate University.

1977 to 1988 he was Managing Director ( Executive Director) of the American Mathematical Society ( AMS) .1970 to 1974 he was U.S. delegate to the International Mathematical Union.

As a number of theorists, it dealt with uniform distribution, Diophantine approximation, transcendental numbers, and wrote some in the U.S. known textbooks on number theory. For the project, the history of the theory of numbers by Leonard Dickson ( ending in 1910 ) to bring up to date to, created in 1973 the editorship of six volumes of Reviews in Number Theory at the AMS, wherein the reviews of Mathematical Reviews from 1940 to 1972 were printed sorted by topic. In 1965, he was also editor of Mathematical Reviews for the American Mathematical Society.

After his retirement he lived for three years in his sailboat on the East Coast and in the Caribbean and then moved to Bainbridge Iceland.

His son, Randall J. LeVeque is Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Washington. To LeVeque 's doctoral counts Underwood Dudley.

Writings (selection )

• Studies in Number Theory ( Studies in Mathematics, Vol 6). AMS, Washington, D.C. In 1969.