Tom M. Apostol

Tom Mike Apostol (* 1923 in Helper, Utah ) is an American mathematician who deals with analytic number theory and mathematics education.

Apostol is the son of Greek immigrants to the United States (with original name Apostolopoulos ). He studied chemical engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle (Bachelor 1944), but then switched to mathematics, earned his master's degree in Seattle ( 1946) and received his doctorate in 1948 at the University of California, Berkeley with Derrick Lehmer ( A study of Dedekind sums and Their generalization ). Since 1950 (after positions at Berkeley and at MIT in 1949 as a Moore Instructor ) he is at Caltech, where he has been a professor since the mid-1950s and 1992 Emeritus. He is there today (2008) Professor Emeritus.

In addition to his work on analytic number theory, he is concerned with mathematics education, the author is more known in the U.S. textbooks on calculus and linear algebra and directed the " Project Mathematics! ", Which wants to represent the elementary mathematics school meet with videos (such as the video " Sines and cosines "). For his work with Mamikon Mnatsakanian ( an Armenian astrophysicist ) for visualization of analysis both received the 2008 Lester Ford price. He was also involved in the video introductory series of lectures on physics, " The Mechanical Universe" and the corresponding textbooks.

Since 2001 he is member of the Greek Academy of Sciences in Athens. In 1962 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm ( Bohr's equivalence relation for Dirichlet Series). He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Writings

  • Modular Functions and Dirichlet Series in Number Theory, Springer Verlag, 1976, 2nd edition, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 1990, ISBN 0 - 387-90185 -X
  • Introduction to Analytic Number Theory, Springer- Verlag, 1976, 5th edition, Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, 1998, ISBN 0-387-90163-9
  • Mathematical Analysis: A modern approach to advanced calculus, Addison -Wesley 1957, 1974, ISBN 0-201-00288-4
  • Calculus, One-Variable Calculus with an Introduction to Linear Algebra, 2 volumes, Blasi Dell, 1961, 2nd edition 1967
  • Linear Algebra. A First Course. With applications to differential equations, Wiley 1997
  • With Richard Olenick, David L. Goodstein: The Mechanical Universe: Mechanics and Heat, Advanced Edition, Cambridge University Press 2007, ISBN 0-521-30432-6 ( first 1985)
  • With Olenick, Goodstein: Beyond the mechanical universe: from electricity to modern physics, Cambridge University Press 2007
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