Harold P. Boas

Short description: American mathematician

Harold P. Boas

Born| June 26, 1954 (1954-06-26) (age 69)

Evanston, Illinois

Nationality| American
Alma mater| Harvard University (1976)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1980)
Awards| Chauvenet Prize (2009)
Scientific career
Fields| Mathematics
Institutions| Columbia University
Texas A&M University
Doctoral advisor| Norberto Kerzman
Website| www.math.tamu.edu/~boas/

Harold P. Boas (born June 26, 1954) is an American mathematician.

## Contents

* 1 Life
* 2 Education
* 3 Teaching
* 4 Publications and awards
* 5 References

## Life

Boas was born in Evanston, Illinois, United States. He is the son of two noted mathematicians, Ralph P. Boas, Jr and Mary L. Boas.

## Education

He received his A.B. and S.M. degrees in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1976 and his Ph.D. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980 under the direction of Norberto Kerzman.[1]

## Teaching

Boas was a J. F. Ritt Assistant Professor at Columbia University (1980–1984) before moving to Texas A&M University, where he advanced to the rank of associate professor in 1987 and full professor in 1992. He has held visiting positions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California.

## Publications and awards

He has published over thirty papers, including Reflections on the arbelos (for which he won the Chauvenet Prize in 2009),[2] and has also translated several dozen papers and a book from Russian into English. He is a winner of the Lester R. Ford Award (2007)[2] of the Mathematical Association of America and a co-winner of the Stefan Bergman Prize (with Emil J. Straube, 1995) of the American Mathematical Society.[3] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[4]

He revised and updated his father's book A Primer of Real Functions for the fourth edition.

## References

1. ↑ Harold P. Boas at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Boas, Harold P. (2006). "Reflections on the Arbelos". American Mathematical Monthly 113 (3): 236–249. doi:10.2307/27641891. http://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/writing-awards/reflections-on-the-arbelos.
3. ↑ "1995 Bergman Trust Prize Awarded", Notices of the American Mathematical Society 42 (7): 778–779, 1995, https://www.ams.org/notices/199507/people.pdf
4. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-10.

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Chauvenet Prize recipients

* 1925 G. A. Bliss
* 1929 T. H. Hildebrandt
* 1932 G. H. Hardy
* 1935 Dunham Jackson
* 1938 G. T. Whyburn
* 1941 Saunders Mac Lane
* 1944 R. H. Cameron
* 1947 Paul Halmos
* 1950 Mark Kac
* 1953 E. J. McShane
* 1956 Richard H. Bruck
* 1960 Cornelius Lanczos
* 1963 Philip J. Davis
* 1964 Leon Henkin
* 1965 Jack K. Hale and Joseph P. LaSalle
* 1967 Guido Weiss
* 1968 Mark Kac
* 1970 Shiing-Shen Chern
* 1971 Norman Levinson
* 1972 François Trèves
* 1973 Carl D. Olds
* 1974 Peter D. Lax
* 1975 Martin Davis and Reuben Hersh
* 1976 Lawrence Zalcman
* 1977 W. Gilbert Strang
* 1978 Shreeram S. Abhyankar
* 1979 Neil J. A. Sloane
* 1980 Heinz Bauer
* 1981 Kenneth I. Gross
* 1982 No award given.
* 1983 No award given.
* 1984 R. Arthur Knoebel
* 1985 Carl Pomerance
* 1986 George Miel
* 1987 James H. Wilkinson
* 1988 Stephen Smale
* 1989 Jacob Korevaar
* 1990 David Allen Hoffman
* 1991 W. B. Raymond Lickorish and Kenneth C. Millett
* 1992 Steven G. Krantz
* 1993 David H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein and Peter B. Borwein
* 1994 Barry Mazur
* 1995 Donald G. Saari
* 1996 Joan Birman
* 1997 Tom Hawkins
* 1998 Alan Edelman and Eric Kostlan
* 1999 Michael I. Rosen
* 2000 Don Zagier
* 2001 Carolyn S. Gordon and David L. Webb
* 2002 Ellen Gethner, Stan Wagon, and Brian Wick
* 2003  Thomas C. Hales
* 2004 Edward B. Burger
* 2005 John Stillwell
* 2006 Florian Pfender & Günter M. Ziegler
* 2007 Andrew J. Simoson
* 2008 Andrew Granville
* 2009 Harold P. Boas
* 2010 Brian J. McCartin
* 2011 Bjorn Poonen
* 2012 Dennis DeTurck, Herman Gluck, Daniel Pomerleano & David Shea Vela-Vick
* 2013 Robert Ghrist
* 2014 Ravi Vakil
* 2015 Dana Mackenzie
* 2016 Susan Marshall & Donald R. Smith
* 2017 Mark Schilling
* 2018 Daniel J. Velleman
* 2019 Tom Leinster

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