Leonard Carlitz
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| Leonard Carlitz | |
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| Born | December 26, 1907 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Died | September 17, 1999 (aged 91) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Residence |  U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Duke University |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania |
| Doctoral advisor | Howard Mitchell |
| Doctoral students | David Roselle (among 44) |
| Known for | Combinatorics Number Theory Polynomial Rings prolific publication |
Leonard Carlitz (December 26, 1907 – September 17, 1999) was an American mathematician. Carlitz supervised 44 Doctorates at Duke University and published over 770 papers.
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[edit] Chronology
- 1907 Born Philadelphia, PA, USA
- 1927 BA, University of Pennsylvania
- 1930 PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1930 under Howard Mitchell, who had studied under Oswald Veblen at Princeton
- 1930/31 at Caltech with E.T. Bell
- 1931 married Clara Skaler
- 1931/32 at Cambridge with G.H. Hardy
- 1932 Joined the faculty of Duke University where he served for 45 years
- 1938 to 1973 Editorial Board Duke Mathematics Journal (Managing Editor from 1945.)
- 1939 Birth of son Michael
- 1940 Supervision of his first doctoral student E.F. Canaday, awarded 1940
- 1945 Birth of son Robert
- 1964 First James B. Duke Professor in Mathematics
- 1977 Supervised his 44th and last doctoral student, Jo Ann Lutz, awarded 1977
- 1977 Retired
- 1990 Death of wife Clara, after 59 years of marriage
- 1999 September 17 Died in Pittsburgh, PA
[edit] Mathematical work
The Carlitz Module is generalized by the Drinfel'd Module
An Identity regarding Bernoulli Numbers
Carlitz wrote about Bessel Polynomials
He introduced Al-Salam–Carlitz polynomials.
Carlitz' identity for bicentric quadrilaterals
[edit] Publication
Leonard Carlitz published about 771 technical papers comprising approximately 7000 pages. The effort to edit his collected works, undertaken originally by Professor John Brillhart, is ongoing.
[edit] References
- Brawley, Joel V. (2000), "In memoriam: Leonard Carlitz (1907--1999)", Finite Fields and their Applications 6 (3): 203–206, doi:10.1006/ffta.2000.0276, ISSN 1071-5797, MR1772617
- Brawley, Joel V. (1995), "Dedicated to Leonard Carlitz: the man and his work", Finite Fields and their Applications 1 (2): 135–151, doi:10.1006/ffta.1995.1011, ISSN 1071-5797, MR1337739
- Hayes, David R. (2001), "Leonard Carlitz (1907--1999)", Notices of the American Mathematical Society 48 (11): 1322–1324, ISSN 0002-9920, MR1870635, http://www.ams.org/notices/200111/comm-carlitz.pdf
- Howard, F. T. (2000), "In memoriam---Leonard Carlitz", Fibonacci Quarterly 38 (4): 316, ISSN 0015-0517, MR1775253, http://www.fq.math.ca/38-4.html
