Mathematician:George Brown Arfken

Mathematician

American theoretical physicist and author of several mathematical physics texts.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: November 20, 1922, Jersey City, New Jersey
• Died: October 8, 2020

Publications

• 1949: S-Wave Proton-Proton Scattering from 0.2 to 40 Mev for the Yukawa and Gauss Error Potentials
• 1953: A Vector Addition Coefficient Identity
• 1961: Ionization of the interplanetary gas

• 1966: Mathematical Methods for Physicists
  • 1970: Mathematical Methods for Physicists, 2nd ed.
  • 2003: Mathematical Methods for Physicists, 5th ed. (with Hans J. Weber)
  • 2013: Mathematical Methods for Physicists, 7th ed. (with Hans J. Weber and Frank E. Harris)

• 1973: Comment on “Elementary Use of Spheroidal Coordinates”
• 1989: University Physics (with David F. Griffing and Donald C. Kelly)
• 1989: Canada's Small Queen Era