George Andrews (mathematician)

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Name George Andrews Role Mathematician		Doctoral advisor Hans Rademacher

Fields Analysis and Combinatorics Institutions Pennsylvania State University Alma mater University of Pennsylvania Education University of Pennsylvania (1961–1964) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada Books The theory of partitions, Special functions, Generalized Frobenius partitions, Number Theory, Integer Partitions Similar People Richard Askey, Bruce C Berndt, David Bressoud, Ken Ono, Dominique Foata
Known for Ramanujan's lost notebook

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George Eyre Andrews (born December 4, 1938 in Salem, Oregon) is an American mathematician working in analysis and combinatorics.

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Education and career

He is currently an Evan Pugh Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University. He did his undergraduate studies at Oregon State University and received his PhD in 1964 at the University of Pennsylvania where his advisor was Hans Rademacher.

During 2008-2009 he was president of the American Mathematical Society.

Contributions

Andrews's contributions include several monographs and over 250 research and popular articles on q-series, special functions, combinatorics and applications. He is considered to be the world's leading expert in the theory of integer partitions. In 1976 he discovered Ramanujan's Lost Notebook. He is highly interested in mathematical pedagogy.

His book The Theory of Partitions is the standard reference on the subject of integer partitions.

Awards and honors

Andrews is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

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

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)

Integer Partitions (with Eriksson, Kimmo) (Cambridge University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-521-84118-6)

Ramanujan's Lost Notebook: Part I (with Bruce C. Berndt) (Springer, 2005, ISBN 0-387-25529-X)

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.

References

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