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New Zealand-born American mathematician
Carl Douglas Olds (11 May 1912 – 11 November 1979) was a New Zealand-born American
mathematician specializing in
number theory .
Biography
Carl Olds was born in 1912 in
Wanganui , New Zealand. He was an undergraduate student at
Stanford University , and continued at Stanford as a graduate student,
[1] defending his
Ph.D. thesis On the Number of Representations of the Square of an Integer as the Sum of an Odd Number of Squares at
Stanford University in 1943 under the supervision of
James V. Uspensky .
[1]
[2]
From 1935 to 1940 and in the summer of 1942, he was an acting instructor at
Stanford University and from 1940 to 1945, an assistant professor at
Purdue University . From 1945 until his retirement, Olds was based at
California State University, San Jose , where he advanced through the ranks to full professor. He died on 11 November 1979 in
Santa Clara, California .
[1]
Recognition
Olds was awarded the 1973
Chauvenet Prize for his paper "The Simple
Continued Fraction Expansion of
e ", published in the
American Mathematical Monthly in 1970.
[3]
Works
Books
Olds, Carl D.;
Lax, Anelli ;
Davidoff, Giuliana P. (2000),
The Geometry of Numbers ,
Mathematical Association of America ,
doi :
10.5948/UPO9780883859551 ,
ISBN
9780883856437
[4]
Olds, Carl D. (1963),
Continued Fractions ,
Mathematical Association of America ,
doi :
10.5948/UPO9780883859261 ,
ISBN
9780883856093
Articles
Olds, Carl D. The Simple
Continued Fraction Expansion of
e ,
The American Mathematical Monthly , Vol. 77, No. 9 (Nov., 1970), pp. 968–974. (
URL ,
PDF )
Olds, Carl D. The Best Polynomial Approximation of Functions ,
The American Mathematical Monthly , Vol. 57, No. 9 (Nov., 1950), pp. 617–621. (
URL )
Olds, Carl D. Note on an asymmetric
diophantine approximation ,
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 52 (1946), pp. 261–263. (
URL )
Olds, Carl D. On the representations, N3 (n2 ) ,
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. Volume 47, Number 6 (1941), pp. 499–503. (
URL )
References
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a
b
c
Carl D. Olds obituary.
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Carl D. Olds at the
Mathematics Genealogy Project
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Chauvenet Prize recipients
^ Reviews of Geometry of Numbers :
Wills, Jörg M.,
zbMATH ,
Zbl
0967.11023 {{
citation }}
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link )
Davis, Philip J. (October 2001),
"From spots and dots to deep stuff" ,
SIAM News , vol. 34, no. 8
Burger, Edward B. (2002),
Mathematical Reviews ,
MR
1817689 {{
citation }}
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link )
Giesbrecht, Edwin C. (February 2002),
The Mathematics Teacher , 95 (2): 156, 158,
JSTOR
20870960 {{
citation }}
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link )
Hoare, Graham (July 2002),
The Mathematical Gazette , 86 (506): 368–369,
doi :
10.2307/3621910 ,
JSTOR
3621910 {{
citation }}
: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (
link )
Cohn, Henry (December 2002),
"Review" , MAA Reviews ,
Mathematical Association of America
International National Academics Other