Donald Donald J. Newman

Background

Newman was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1930, and studied at New York"s Stuyvesant High School.

Education

Harvard University; Stuyvesant High School.

Career

His mathematical specialties included complex analysis, approximation theory and number theory. In 1980 he found a short proof of the prime number theorem, which can now be found in his textbook on Complex analysis His career included posts as a Professor of Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brown University, Yeshiva University, Temple University and a distinguished chair at Bar Ilan University in Israel. He held government and industry positions at Avco, Republic Aviation, Bell Laboratories, International Business Machines Corporation and the National Security Agency. Newman"s love of problem solving comes through in his writing.

His published output as a mathematician includes 150 papers and five books

He taught numerous students over the years, including Robert Feinerman, Jonah Mann, Eli Passow, Louis Raymon, Joseph Bak, Shmuel Weinberger, and Gerald Weinstein at Yeshiva University, and Bo Gao, Don Kellman, Jonathan Knappenberger, and Yuan Xu at Temple University. Newman, J. --. --. --.

--. New York: Springer. (#177 in the Graduate Texts in Mathematics series).

Achievements

• He was an avid problem-solver, and as an undergraduate was a Putnam Fellow all three years he took part in the Putnam math competition. Only the third person to attain that feat.

Connections

associate:

John Nash