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Leonard Carlitz

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Residence
  
U.S.

Role
  
Mathematician

Nationality
  
American

Fields
  
Mathematics

Institutions
  
Duke University

Name
  
Leonard Carlitz


Born
  
December 26, 1907 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (
1907-12-26
)

Alma mater
  
University of Pennsylvania

Known for
  
Combinatorics Number theory Polynomial rings prolific publication

Died
  
September 17, 1999, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Education
  
University of Pennsylvania

Doctoral students
  
Waleed Al-Salam, David Roselle

Doctoral advisor
  
Howard Hawks Mitchell

Leonard Carlitz (December 26, 1907 – September 17, 1999) was an American mathematician. Carlitz supervised 44 doctorates at Duke University and published over 770 papers.

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Chronology

  • 1907 Born Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • 1927 BA, University of Pennsylvania
  • 1930 PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1930 under Howard Mitchell, who had studied under Oswald Veblen at Princeton
  • 1930–31 at Caltech with E. T. Bell
  • 1931 married Clara Skaler
  • 1931–32 at Cambridge with G. H. Hardy
  • 1932 Joined the faculty of Duke University where he served for 45 years
  • 1938 to 1973 Editorial Board Duke Mathematics Journal (Managing Editor from 1945.)
  • 1939 Birth of son Michael
  • 1940 Supervision of his first doctoral student E. F. Canaday, awarded 1940
  • 1945 Birth of son Robert
  • 1964 First James B. Duke Professor in Mathematics
  • 1977 Supervised his 44th and last doctoral student, Jo Ann Lutz, awarded 1977
  • 1977 Retired
  • 1990 Death of wife Clara, after 59 years of marriage
  • 1999 September 17 Died in Pittsburgh, PA

    • Mathematical work

  • The Carlitz module is generalized by the Drinfeld module
  • An identity regarding Bernoulli numbers
  • Carlitz wrote about Bessel polynomials
  • He introduced Al-Salam–Carlitz polynomials.
  • Carlitz' identity for bicentric quadrilaterals

    • Publication

    Leonard Carlitz published about 771 technical papers comprising approximately 7,000 pages. The effort to edit his collected works, undertaken originally by Professor John Brillhart, is ongoing.

    References

    Leonard Carlitz Wikipedia
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