Donald John Lewis

Background

Lewis, Donald John was born on January 25, 1926 in Adrian, Minnesota, United States. Son of William J. and Ellanora (Masgai) Lewis.

Education

Lewis received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1950 at the University of Michigan under supervision of Richard Dagobert Brauer, and subsequently was an National Science Foundation Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1952–1953), an National Science Foundation Senior Fellow (1959–1961), a Senior Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University (1965, 1969), a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University (1976), and Humboldt Awardee (1980, 1983).

Career

Instructor, Ohio State University, Columbus, 1950-1952; assistant professor, U. Notre Dame (Indiana), 1953-1957; associate professor, U. Notre Dame (Indiana), 1957-1961; associate professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1961-1963; professor mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, since 1963; department chair, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1983-1994; director Division Mathematics Sciences, National Science Foundation, since 1995. Member Institute for Advisory Study, 1952-1953, 90-91. Visiting scientist U. Manchester (England), 1959-1961, Cambridge (England), 1960-1961.

Visiting fellow Trinity College, Cambridge, 1965, 69, Japanese Society for Promotion of Science, Tokyo,1974. Visitor U. Heidelberg, Germany, 1980-1981, 83. Advisory board mathematics science National Science Foundation, 1983-1986, math panel science, 1993.

Achievements

• Donald John Lewis has been listed as a noteworthy Mathematics educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Calculus and Linear Algebra Vol. 2: Vector Spaces, Many-Variable Calculus, and Differential Equations

    (In the second volume of Calculus and Linear Algebra, the ...)

  • Calculus and Linear Algebra V.1

    (Book by Kaplan, Wilfred, Lewis, Donald J.)

  • Calculus and Linear Algebra, Volume 1: Vectors in the plane and one-variable calculus

    (Science)

  • Calculus and Linear Algebra Vol. 2: Vector Spaces, Many-Variable Calculus, and Differential Equations by Wilfred Kaplan (2013-05-22)
  • Calculus and Linear Algebra, Volume 1 & 2 (Vectors in the Plane and One-Variable Calculus, Vector Spaces, Many-Variable Calculus, and Differential Equations)

Interests

• Avocations: gardening.

Connections

Married Carolyn Dana Hauf, December 28, 1953.

Father:

William J. Lewis

Mother:

Ellanora (Masgai) Lewis

Spouse:

Carolyn Dana Hauf