Milton Abramowitz

Milton Abramowitz ( born 1915 in Brooklyn, New York City; † July 5, 1958 ) was an American mathematician.

Abramowitz made ​​in 1937 and 1940, his Bachelor 's Degree, both at Brooklyn College. In 1948 he received his Ph. D. in mathematics at New York University. Since 1938 he worked in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS ). In the Math Tables Project in the early 1950s led to the idea to publish a handbook of mathematical functions. He was appointed editor. For this purpose he divided the task of writing the chapters, various mathematicians. He wrote the chapter Elementary Analytical Methods, Struve Functions and Related Functions and Coulomb Wave Functions. In July 1958 twelve chapters had already been completed, as Abramowitz died unexpectedly. Irene Stegun took over management and published the Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables 1964.

Works

  • Miscellaneous physical tables, Planck 's radiation functions and electronic functions. Univ. Microfilms, Ann Arbor 1941
  • With Arnold Lowan Noah: Table of the integrals. In: Journal of Mathematics & Physics. Volume 22, Issue 1, 1943
  • On back flow of a viscous fluid in a diverging channel. 1949
  • With Irene Stegun: Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables. National Bureau of Standards, Washington DC 1964
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