mathematician university professor
He earned his Doctor of Philosophy in 1948 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the supervision of Norman Levinson, and taught as a Peirce Fellow at Harvard from 1948 to 1950 where his teaching skills were gratefully remembered 6 decades later by one of his students.
Some say that he was the creator of one of the first electronic games known, the knowledge game called Nim. He taught for 55 years at the University of California, Los Los Angeles writing more than 200 research papers and three textbooks. Notable and unusual is the physically motivated discussion of the functions of vector calculus in the book with Sokolnikoff.
He is known for the Redheffer matrix, and for (with Charles Eames) designing a timeline of mathematics entitled Men of Modern Mathematics that was printed and widely distributed in 1966 by International Business Machines Corporation. He also collaborated with Eames on a series of short films about mathematics, and may have invented the first computer game (a version of Nim with electronic components).
Books Sokolnikoff, Ivan S. Redheffer, Raymond M. (1958), Mathematics of Physics and Modern Engineering, New York: McGraw-Hill. 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, 1966. Levinson, Norman.
Redheffer, Raymond M. (1970), Complex Variables, Holden-Day, . Redheffer, Raymond M. (1991), Differential equations : theory and applications, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, . Redheffer, Raymond M. (1992), Introduction to Differential Equations, Jones & Bartlett Publishers.
