Carl D. Olds
Carl Douglas Olds (11 May 1912 – 11 November 1979) was a New Zealand-born American mathematician specializing in number theory.
Biography
Carl Olds was born in 1912 in Wanganui, New Zealand. He was an undergraduate student at Stanford University, and continued at Stanford as a graduate student,[1] defending his Ph.D. thesis On the Number of Representations of the Square of an Integer as the Sum of an Odd Number of Squares at Stanford University in 1943 under the supervision of James V. Uspensky.[1][2]
From 1935 to 1940 and in the summer of 1942, he was an acting instructor at Stanford University and from 1940 to 1945, an assistant professor at Purdue University. From 1945 until his retirement, Olds was based at California State University, San Jose, where he advanced through the ranks to full professor. He died on 11 November 1979 in Santa Clara, California.[1]
Recognition
Olds was awarded the 1973 Chauvenet Prize for his paper "The Simple Continued Fraction Expansion of e", published in the American Mathematical Monthly in 1970.[3]
Works
Books
- Olds, Carl D.; Lax, Anelli; Davidoff, Giuliana P. (2000), The Geometry of Numbers, Mathematical Association of America, doi:10.5948/UPO9780883859551, ISBN 9780883856437[4]
- Olds, Carl D. (1963), Continued Fractions, Mathematical Association of America, doi:10.5948/UPO9780883859261, ISBN 9780883856093
Articles
- Olds, Carl D. The Simple Continued Fraction Expansion of e , The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 77, No. 9 (Nov., 1970), pp. 968–974. (URL, PDF)
- Olds, Carl D. The Best Polynomial Approximation of Functions, The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 57, No. 9 (Nov., 1950), pp. 617–621. (URL)
- Olds, Carl D. Note on an asymmetric diophantine approximation, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 52 (1946), pp. 261–263. (URL)
- Olds, Carl D. On the representations, N3(n2), Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. Volume 47, Number 6 (1941), pp. 499–503. (URL)
References
- ^ a b c Carl D. Olds obituary.
- ^ Carl D. Olds at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Chauvenet Prize recipients
- ^ Reviews of Geometry of Numbers:
- Wills, Jörg M., zbMATH, Zbl 0967.11023
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- Wills, Jörg M., zbMATH, Zbl 0967.11023
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- 1925 G. A. Bliss
- 1929 T. H. Hildebrandt
- 1932 G. H. Hardy
- 1935 Dunham Jackson
- 1938 G. T. Whyburn
- 1941 Saunders Mac Lane
- 1944 R. H. Cameron
- 1947 Paul Halmos
- 1950 Mark Kac
- 1953 E. J. McShane
- 1956 Richard H. Bruck
- 1960 Cornelius Lanczos
- 1963 Philip J. Davis
- 1964 Leon Henkin
- 1965 Jack K. Hale and Joseph P. LaSalle
- 1967 Guido Weiss
- 1968 Mark Kac
- 1970 Shiing-Shen Chern
- 1971 Norman Levinson
- 1972 François Trèves
- 1973 Carl D. Olds
- 1974 Peter D. Lax
- 1975 Martin Davis and Reuben Hersh
- 1976 Lawrence Zalcman
- 1977 W. Gilbert Strang
- 1978 Shreeram S. Abhyankar
- 1979 Neil J. A. Sloane
- 1980 Heinz Bauer
- 1981 Kenneth I. Gross
- 1982 No award given.
- 1983 No award given.
- 1984 R. Arthur Knoebel
- 1985 Carl Pomerance
- 1986 George Miel
- 1987 James H. Wilkinson
- 1988 Stephen Smale
- 1989 Jacob Korevaar
- 1990 David Allen Hoffman
- 1991 W. B. Raymond Lickorish and Kenneth C. Millett
- 1992 Steven G. Krantz
- 1993 David H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein and Peter B. Borwein
- 1994 Barry Mazur
- 1995 Donald G. Saari
- 1996 Joan Birman
- 1997 Tom Hawkins
- 1998 Alan Edelman and Eric Kostlan
- 1999 Michael I. Rosen
- 2000 Don Zagier
- 2001 Carolyn S. Gordon and David L. Webb
- 2002 Ellen Gethner, Stan Wagon, and Brian Wick
- 2003 Thomas C. Hales
- 2004 Edward B. Burger
- 2005 John Stillwell
- 2006 Florian Pfender & Günter M. Ziegler
- 2007 Andrew J. Simoson
- 2008 Andrew Granville
- 2009 Harold P. Boas
- 2010 Brian J. McCartin
- 2011 Bjorn Poonen
- 2012 Dennis DeTurck, Herman Gluck, Daniel Pomerleano & David Shea Vela-Vick
- 2013 Robert Ghrist
- 2014 Ravi Vakil
- 2015 Dana Mackenzie
- 2016 Susan H. Marshall & Donald R. Smith
- 2017 Mark Schilling
- 2018 Daniel J. Velleman
- 2019 Tom Leinster
- 2020 Vladimir Pozdnyakov & J. Michael Steele
- 2021 Travis Kowalski
- 2022 William Dunham, Ezra Brown & Matthew Crawford
- 2023 Kimmo Eriksson & Jonas Eliasson
- 2024 Jeffrey Whitmer