Emil Grosswald

Emil Gross Forest ( * December 15, 1912 in Bucharest, † April 11, 1989 in Narberth, Pennsylvania ) was a Romanian- American mathematician who mainly dealt with number theory and analysis.

Life

Large forest made ​​in 1933 his diploma in mathematics from the University of Bucharest. As a Jew, he fled in the late 1930s from the Nazis and anti-Semitism in France, where he continued his studies in Paris and Montpelier. After the occupation of France in 1940, he fled from Paris to Spain to Havana in Cuba ( where he published during the Second World War as EC Garnea ) and went in 1946 to Puerto Rico and in 1948 in the United States. In 1950 he received his doctorate with Hans Rademacher at the University of Pennsylvania ( On the structure of some subgroups of the modular groups). There he also taught from 1950 until 1968. Afterwards, he was a professor at Temple University, where in 1980 he retired. He was a guest scientist and visiting professor at the University of Saskatchewan (1950), the Institute for Advanced Study ( 1951), the Technion (1980 /81), Swarthmore College ( 1982) and the University of Pennsylvania ( 1984).

Great Forest specialized in analytic number theory influenced by his teacher Hans Rademacher.

1965-1968 he was the Council of the Mathematical Association of America ( MAA). In 1962 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm (On a theorem of Petersson and Meinardus ).

Large forest was 1974, the collected works of his teacher Rademacher out and with Joseph Lehner and Newman Morris 1973 whose Topics in analytic number theory in the principles of the mathematical sciences.

He was married to Elizabeth Rosenthal and had two daughters.

Writings

  • Hans Rademacher: Dedekind Sums, Carus Mathematical Monographs, MAA 1972 ( after Hedrick Lecture by Rademacher in Boulder (Colorado), the large forest in 1963 for the diseased Rademacher held )
  • Bessel Polynomials, Springer Verlag 1978
  • Topics from the theory of numbers, 2nd edition, Birkhäuser 2008 ( first edition 1984)
  • Representations of Integers as Sums of Squares, Springer Verlag 1985
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