Harold P. Boas

Born| June 26, 1954 (1954-06-26) (age 71)

Evanston, Illinois

Nationality| American
Alma mater| Harvard University (1976)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1980)
Awards| Stefan Bergman Prize (1995)

Lester R. Ford Award (2007)
Chauvenet Prize (2009)
Fellow of the AMS (2013)
MAA Texas Section Distinguished Teaching Award (2013)
Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award (2017)

AAAS Fellow (2020)
Scientific career
Fields| Mathematics
Institutions| Columbia University
Texas A&M University
Doctoral advisor| Norberto Kerzman
Website| haroldpboas.gitlab.io

Harold P. Boas (born June 26, 1954) is an American mathematician, professor emeritus of Texas A&M University, where he was Professor and Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence in the department of mathematics.[1]

## Contents

* 1 Life
* 2 Education
* 3 Career
* 4 Mathematical works and service
* 5 Awards
* 6 References

## Life

Boas was born in Evanston, Illinois, United States. He is the youngest of three children of two noted mathematicians, Ralph P. Boas, Jr and Mary L. Boas.[2]

## Education

He received his A.B. and S.M. degrees in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1976[3] and his Ph.D. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980 under the direction of Norberto Kerzman.[4]

## Career

Boas was a J. F. Ritt Assistant Professor at Columbia University (1980–1984) before moving to Texas A&M University as an assistant professor, where he advanced to the rank of associate professor in 1987 and full professor in 1992.[3] He was given the University title of Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence in 2012 and the System title of Regents Professor in 2014.[1]

He has held visiting positions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California.

## Mathematical works and service

Boas has published over thirty papers twelve of which he coauthored with his colleague Emil J. Straube. Starting from late 80s until mid 90s, they had a spectucalar progress in the study of global regularity of the Bergman projection and of the ∂-Neumann problem. In particular, they have proved the global regularity in the sense of preservation of Sobolev spaces on large class of pseudoconvex domains.[3] Boas also provided a counterexample to the Lu Qi-Keng Conjecture which was raised by Lu Qi-Keng in 1966 and asked whether it was true for every bounded domain that the Bergman kernel function had no zeroes.[5]

He has also published more than 200 short reviews for zbMathOpen and more than 550 reviews for Mathematical Reviews over MathSciNet.

Boas was part of Russian Translation Project of the American Mathematical Society and translated more than 84 Russian research articles in English as well as a book by Alexander M. Kytmanov from Russian into English.

He has served as the editor of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society between 2011 and 2003, took part in editorial duties in several research journals.

## Awards

He was the winner of the 1995 Stefan Bergman Prize of the American Mathematical Society.[3] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Boas is also known for his excellence in teaching and expository works, including Reflections on the arbelos (for which he won the Chauvenet Prize in 2009).[6] He has twice won the Lester R. Ford Award of the Mathematical Association of America in 2007 and 2017.[6][1]

He has revised and updated his father's books, such as the fourth edition of A Primer of Real Functions and the second edition of Invitation to Complex Analysis.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Boas, Harold P. (2016). "Mocposite Functions". American Mathematical Monthly 123 (5): 427–438. doi:10.4169/amer.math.monthly.123.5.427. https://maa.org/paul-r-halmos-lester-r-ford-awards/.
2. ↑ Casazza, Peter; Krantz, Steven G; Ruden, Randi D. (2015). I, mathematician. Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-88385-585-0.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "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. ↑ Harold P. Boas at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
5. ↑ Harold P. Boas, Counterexample to the Lu Qi-Keng conjecture, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 97 (1986), 374-375, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1986-0835902-8
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Boas, Harold P. (2006). "Reflections on the Arbelos". American Mathematical Monthly 113 (3): 236–249. doi:10.2307/27641891. https://maa.org/paul-r-halmos-lester-r-ford-awards.

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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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