Biography:Marvin Knopp
Marvin Isadore Knopp | |
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| Born | January 4, 1933 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.[1] |
| Died | December 24, 2011 (aged 78) Boca Raton, Florida, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Wisconsin Temple University |
| Doctoral advisor | Paul T. Bateman |
| Doctoral students | YoungJu Choie |
Marvin Isadore Knopp (January 4, 1933 – December 24, 2011) was an American mathematician who worked primarily in number theory. He made notable contributions to the theory of modular forms.
Life and education
Knopp was born on January 4, 1933, in Chicago, Illinois. He received his PhD under Paul T. Bateman from the University of Illinois in 1958 where he became friends with fellow student Gene Golub.[2] Over the course of his career, he advised twenty Ph.D. students.[3] He is the father of pianist Seth Knopp, and of Yehudah, Abby, and Elana.[4] Marvin was married to Josephine Zadovsky Knopp for 25 years but the marriage ended in divorce. Knopp died on December 24, 2011, during a vacation in Florida. Marvin found happiness from his children, old movies, great music and numbers. The last 30 years of Knopp's life was shared with Phyllis Zemble. During the 6 years following his death, Zemble organized his papers and books (with the help of Wladimer Pribitkin), his photographs and his mathematical correspondence, which she donated to the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM). On AIM's website, you can find 131 of Knopp's reprints.
Personal life
Knopp was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1933. He was an Ashkenazi Jew.[citation needed]
Career
After receiving his PhD in 1958, Knopp taught at the University of Wisconsin and then, for a few years, at the University of Illinois Chicago before moving, in 1976, to Temple University where he stayed until his sudden death in 2011.[5] Knopp was a leading expert in the theory of modular forms and a pioneering figure in the theory of Eichler cohomology, modular integrals and generalized modular forms. He was closely associated with Emil Grosswald.[6] In Jean Dieudonne's influential book A Panorama of Pure Mathematics (Academic Press, 1982), he is mentioned (p. 95) as one of those who "made substantial contributions" to the theory of modular forms.[7]
Selected publications
- Knopp, Marvin (1970). Modular Functions in Analytic Number Theory. Rand McNally. ISBN 0-528-60000-1.
- Knopp, Marvin; Berndt, Bruce (2008). Hecke's Theory of Modular Forms and Dirichlet Series. World Scientific Publishing Co.. ISBN 978-9812706355.
Further reading
- Knopp, Marvin; Sheingorn, Mark, eds (1993). A Tribute to Emil Grosswald. Providence: American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-5155-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=nzxTVb0k8rIC. Retrieved 2009-02-06. A set of papers in honor of Grosswald; includes reminiscences, list of PhD students, and a list of papers and books.
- Temple Tribute
References
- ↑ "American Men and Women of Science: The physical and biological sciences". 1982. https://books.google.com/books?id=Y5ciAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Knopp,+Marvin+Isadore%22.
- ↑ "Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering - Videos of Speakers at the Gene Golub Remembrance". http://icme.stanford.edu/history/golub_celebration_2008/videos.php., Video of Knopp's Talk at Gene Golub Memorial (Talk #3), retrieved 2011-12-29.
- ↑ [1], Knopp's Math Genealogy Entry, retrieved 2011-12-29.
- ↑ [2], Marvin Knopp Tribute Blog, retrieved 2012-01-09.
- ↑ "Marvin Knopp, ז״ל | Temple Geometry Group". http://templegeom.org/2011/12/26/marvin-knopp-%D7%96%D7%B4%D7%9C/., Temple University Geometry Blog, retrieved 2011-12-29.
- ↑ "A panorama of pure mathematics (as seen by N. Bourbaki) by Jean Dieudonné - PDF Drive". http://www.pdfdrive.com/a-panorama-of-pure-mathematics-as-seen-by-n-bourbaki-e165717161.html.
External links
American Institute of Mathematics reprints by Marvin Knopp https://aimath.org/cgi-bin/library.cgi?database=reprints;mode=display;BrowseTitle=Knopp, Marvin
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