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American mathematician (born 1938)
George Eyre Andrews (born December 4, 1938)
[1] is an American
mathematician working in
special functions ,
number theory ,
analysis and
combinatorics .
Education and career
He is currently an Evan Pugh Professor of Mathematics at
Pennsylvania State University .
[2]
[3] He did his undergraduate studies at
Oregon State University
[2] and received his PhD in 1964 at the
University of Pennsylvania where his advisor was
Hans Rademacher .
[1]
[4]
During 2008–2009 he was president of the
American Mathematical Society .
[5]
Contributions
Andrews's contributions include several monographs and over 250 research and popular articles on
q-series ,
special functions ,
combinatorics and applications.
[6]
[7] He is considered to be the world's leading expert in the theory of
integer partitions .
[1]
[8] In 1976 he discovered
Ramanujan 's
Lost Notebook .
[2] He is interested in mathematical pedagogy.
[2]
His book The Theory of Partitions is the standard reference on the subject of
integer partitions .
[1]
He has advanced mathematics in the theories of partitions and q-series. His work at the interface of number theory and combinatorics has also led to many important applications in physics.
[9]
Awards and honors
In 2003 Andrews was elected a member of the
National Academy of Sciences .
[2] He was elected a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997.
[10] In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker at the
International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.
[11] In 2012 he became a fellow of the
American Mathematical Society .
[12]
He was given honorary doctorates from the
University of Parma in 1998, the
University of Florida in 2002, the
University of Waterloo in 2004,
SASTRA University in
Kumbakonam , India in 2012, and
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 2014
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[13]
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Publications
Selected Works of George E Andrews (With Commentary) (World Scientific Publishing, 2012,
ISBN
978-1-84816-666-0 )
Number Theory (Dover, 1994,
ISBN
0-486-68252-8 )
The Theory of Partitions (Cambridge University Press, 1998,
ISBN
0-521-63766-X )
[14]
Integer Partitions (with Eriksson, Kimmo) (Cambridge University Press, 2004,
ISBN
0-521-84118-6 )
[15]
Ramanujan's Lost Notebook: Part I (with
Bruce C. Berndt ) (Springer, 2005,
ISBN
0-387-25529-X )
[16]
Ramanujan's Lost Notebook: Part II , (with Bruce C. Berndt) (Springer, 2008,
ISBN
978-0-387-77765-8 )
Ramanujan's Lost Notebook: Part III , (with Bruce C. Berndt) (Springer, 2012,
ISBN
978-1-4614-3809-0 )
Ramanujan's Lost Notebook: Part IV , (with Bruce C. Berndt) (Springer, 2013,
ISBN
978-1-4614-4080-2 )
"Special functions" by George Andrews,
Richard Askey , and
Ranjan Roy , Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Its Applications , The University Press, Cambridge, 1999.
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References
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d Berndt, Bruce C.; Rankin, Robert Alexander, eds. (1995),
Ramanujan: Letters and Commentary , History of Mathematics, vol. 9, American Mathematical Society, p. 305,
Bibcode :
1995rlc..book.....B ,
ISBN
9780821891254 , Andrews is generally recognized as the world's leading authority on partitions and is the author of the foremost treatise on the subject.
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a
b
c
d
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Inaugural Biography Article at the National Academy of Sciences .
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Evan Pugh Professors
Archived 2013-12-03 at the
Wayback Machine , PSU, retrieved 2013-11-21.
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George Andrews at the
Mathematics Genealogy Project
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AMS presidents, a timeline
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a
b O'Connor, John J.;
Robertson, Edmund F. ,
"George Andrews (mathematician)" ,
MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive ,
University of St Andrews
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The work of George Andrews: a Madison perspective – by
Richard Askey , in "The Andrews Festschrift (Maratea, 1998)", Sem. Lothar. Combin. vol. 42 (1999), Art. B42b, 24 pp.
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Alladi, Krishnaswami (2012),
Ramanujan's Place in the World of Mathematics: Essays Providing a Comparative Study , Springer, p. 122,
ISBN
9788132207672 , George Andrews of the Pennsylvania State University, the world authority on partitions and q -geometric series .
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a
b
"University of Illinois commencement ceremony to take place May 17 at Memorial Stadium (honorary doctorates for George E. Andrews and Phillip Allen Sharp)" . Campus News (illinois.edu) . 5 May 2014.
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"Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A" (PDF) . American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 18 April 2011 .
^ Andrew, George E. (1998).
"Mathematics education: Reform or renewal?" . Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. III . pp. 719–721.
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List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society , retrieved 2012-11-03.
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Honorary doctorates for Andrews, Askey and Berndt
^ Askey, Richard (1979).
"Review: George E. Andrew, The theory of partitions " . Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) . 1 (1): 203–210.
doi :
10.1090/s0273-0979-1979-14556-7 .
^ Glass, Darren (5 April 2005).
"Review of Integer Partitions by George E. Andrews and Kimmo Eriksson" . MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America .
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Bressoud, David (2006).
"Review: Ramanujan's Lost Notebook, Part I , by George Andrews and Bruce C. Berndt" (PDF) . Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) . 43 (4): 585–591.
doi :
10.1090/s0273-0979-06-01110-4 .
^ Wimp, Jet (2000).
"Review: Special functions , by George Andrews, Richard Askey, and Ranjan Roy" (PDF) . Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) . 37 (4): 499–510.
doi :
10.1090/S0273-0979-00-00879-X .
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