Mathematician:Ralph Philip Boas, Jr.
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Mathematician
American mathematician, teacher, and journal editor, working mainly in the fields of real and complex analysis.
Best known for his humorous applications of mathematical theorems to the practical purpose of hunting lions.
Nationality
American
History
- Born: August 8, 1912 in Walla Walla, Washington
- Died: July 25, 1992 in Seattle, Washington
Publications
- 1969: A Primer of Real Functions
- Oct. 1971: Partial Sums of the Harmonic Series (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 78, no. 8: pp. 864 – 870) (with J.W. Wrench, Jr.) www.jstor.org/stable/2316476