| Donald J. Newman | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 27, 1930 |
| Died | March 28, 2007 (aged 76) |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Yeshiva University Temple University New York University |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Doctoral advisor | David Widder Joseph Leonard Walsh |
| Doctoral students | Eli Passow Louis Raymon |
Donald J. (D. J.) Newman (July 27, 1930 – March 28, 2007) was an American mathematician and professor, excelling at the Putnam mathematics competition while an undergraduate at City College of New York and New York University, and later receiving his PhD from Harvard University in 1953.[1]
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Newman was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1930, and studied at New York's famous Stuyvesant High School.[2] He was an avid problem-solver, and as an undergraduate was a Putnam Fellow all three years he took part in the Putnam math competition; only the third person to attain that feat.[3] His mathematical specialties included complex analysis, approximation theory and number theory. He provided an unusually elementary proof of the prime number theorem.
Newman was a friend and associate of John Nash.[4]:144–145 His career included posts as a Professor of Mathematics at MIT, Brown University, Yeshiva University, Temple University and a distinguished chair at Bar Ilan University in Israel.[5] He held government and industry positions at Avco, Republic Aviation, Bell Laboratories, IBM and the NSA.
Newman's love of problem solving comes through in his writing; his published output as a mathematician includes 150 papers and five books. He taught numerous students over the years, including Robert Feinerman, Jonah Mann, Eli Passow, Louis Raymon, Shmuel Weinberger, and Gerald Weinstein at Yeshiva University, and Bo Gao, Don Kellman, Jonathan Knappenberger, and Yuan Xu at Temple University.