词条 | David Borwein |
释义 |
David Borwein (born 1924, in Kaunas, Lithuania) is a Canadian mathematician known for his research in the summability theory of series and integrals. He has also done work in measure theory and probability theory, number theory, and approximate subgradients and coderivatives. He has recently collaborated with his son, Jonathan Borwein, and with B.A. Mares Jr. on the properties of single- and many-variable sinc integrals. BiographyBorwein was born in 1924 in Lithuania to an Ashkenazi Jewish family. He formerly resided and worked in St. Andrews, Scotland, before moving to London, Ontario where he eventually became Head of Mathematics at the University of Western Ontario. He was also the president of the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS). The David Borwein Distinguished Career Award given out by the CMS is named after him. He is currently an active researcher in summability theory, classical analysis, inequalities, matrix transformations, and is professor emeritus at the University of Western Ontario, department of Mathematics. His wife of over 60 years, Bessie Borwein, is a prominent anatomist, and is professor emerita of anatomy at the University of Western Ontario. See also
External links
9 : 1924 births|Canadian mathematicians|Canadian people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent|Living people|Lithuanian emigrants to Canada|Lithuanian Jews|Canadian Jews|University of Western Ontario faculty|People from Kaunas |
随便看 |
|
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识,基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识,是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。