Mathematician:Ivan Morton Niven
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Mathematician
Canadian-American mathematician, most noted for solving most of Waring's Problem.
Also notable for Niven numbers and Niven's constant.
Asteroid 12513 Niven, discovered in 1998, was named after him.
Nationality
Canadian-American
History
- Born: October 25, 1915
- Died: May 9, 1999 in Eugene, Oregon, USA
Theorems and Inventions
- Niven Numbers
- Niven's Constant
- Niven's Theorem
- Provided a simple proof that Pi is Irrational.
Results named for Ivan Morton Niven can be found here.
Definitions of concepts named for Ivan Morton Niven can be found here.
Publications
- 1944: An unsolved case of the Waring problem
- 1947: A simple proof that π is irrational
- 1959: Mathematics: A house built on sand?
- 1960: An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers (with Herbert S. Zuckerman)
- 1966: An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers, 2nd ed. (with Herbert S. Zuckerman)
- 1972: An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers, 3rd ed. (with Herbert S. Zuckerman)
- 1980: An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers, 4th ed. (with Herbert S. Zuckerman)
- 1991: An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers, 5th ed. (with Herbert S. Zuckerman and Hugh L. Montgomery)
- 1969: Averages of Exponents in Factoring Integers (Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 22, no. 2: pp. 356 – 360) www.jstor.org/stable/2037055
- 1969: Formal Power Series (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 76: pp. 871 – 889) www.jstor.org/stable/2317940