Other names Andrew Guinand Fields Mathematics Field Mathematics | Citizenship Australian Died 22 March 1987 Other name Andrew Guinand | |
Born March 3, 1912 ( 1912-03-03 ) Institutions University of New England, Australia | ||
Andrew Paul Guinand (known as Andrew Guinand), (1912 - 1987) was an Australian mathematician and a professor at the University of New England.
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Early life and education
Guinand went to school in 1924 - 1929 at St Peter's College, Adelaide in 1930 he entered St Mark's College of the University of Adelaide to study mathematics and graduated in 1933. He was a great sportsman in his university days.
1934 Guinand won a Rhodes Scholarship to attend the University of Oxford in Great Britain. This was the typical route for the top Australian academics at the time. At Oxford Titchmarsh (1899 - 1963) supervised his doctorate. And it was here his research interest were formed into the field of Fourier analysis and the Riemann zeta function. 1937 - 1938 he studied at Göttingen, in 1939 - 1940 at Princeton University, United States. 1940 he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, returned to England and was a navigator on many missions. When he was stationed 70 km from Oxford he would ride there on bicycle to continue his mathematical research.
After being an assistant at University of Cambridge, he became a lecturer in 1947 at the Royal Military College of Science. And promoted to Associate professor of Mathematics. He returned in 1955 to a chair as the Head of Department at the University of New England at Armidale. Circa 1957 he took a post at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. 1960 he got an appointment at the University of Saskatchewan. 1964 he became the first chairman of the mathematics department at Trent University which had been founded in 1963 in Peterborough, Canada.
Work
Guinand worked on summation formulae and prime numbers, the Riemann zeta function, general Fourier type transformations, geometry and some papers on a variety of topics such as computing, air navigation, calculus of variations, the binomial theorem, determinants and special functions.
In 1959 he published a paper on the poisson formula for which he presented a simpler solution. This was re-discovered by Yves Meyer in 2015.