Background
Levinson, Norman was born on August 11, 1912 in Lynn, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Max and Gussie (Green) Levinson.
mathematician university professor
Levinson, Norman was born on August 11, 1912 in Lynn, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Max and Gussie (Green) Levinson.
Master of Science, Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1934, Doctor of Science, 1935.
Some of his major contributions were in the study of Fourier transforms, complex analysis, non-linear differential equations, number theory, and signal processing. He worked closely with Norbert Wiener in his early career. He joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1937.
In 1974 he published a paper proving that more than a third of the zeros of the Riemann zeta function lie on the critical line, a result later improved to two fifths by Conrey.
He received both his bachelor"s degree and his master"s degree in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1934, where he had studied under Norbert Wiener and took almost all of the graduate-level courses in mathematics. He received the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Redfield Proctor Traveling Fellowship to study at the University of Cambridge, with the assurance that Massachusetts Institute of Technology would reward him with a Doctor of Philosophy upon his return regardless of whatever he produced at Cambridge.
Within the first four months in Cambridge, he had already produced two papers. In 1935, Massachusetts Institute of Technology awarded him with the Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics.
His death in 1975 was caused by a brain tumor.
Norman Levinson"s doctoral students include Raymond Redheffer and Harold Shapiro.
Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member American Mathematics Society. Member editorial board Annals of Mathematics, Transactions American Mathematics Society, Journal Rational Mechanics and Analysis.
Married Zipporah A. Wallman, February 11, 1938. Children: Sylvia Ciel, Joan Ellen.