Mathematician:Donald J. Newman

Mathematician

American mathematician active in the fields of complex analysis, number theory and approximation theory.

Best known for his elementary proof of the Prime Number Theorem.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: 27 July 1930 in Brooklyn, New York
• Died: 28 March 2007 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Publications

Books

• 1974: Polynomial Approximation (with Robert P. Feinerman)
• 1979: Approximation with Rational Functions
• 1982: A Problem Seminar
• 1996: Complex Analysis
• 1998: Analytic number theory (Graduate Texts in Mathematics #177) (ISBN 0387983082)
• 2007: Complex Analysis (updated, with Joseph Bak)

Papers

• 1960: A simplified proof of Waring's conjecture (Michigan Math. J. Vol. 7, no. 3: pp. 291 – 295)

• 1974: Finite type functions as limits of exponential sums

• 1974: Splines and the logarithmic function

• 1975: A simple proof of Wiener's $1/f$ theorem (Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 48: pp. 264 – 265)  www.jstor.org/stable/2040730

• 1982: The Hexagon Theorem