Tom M. Apostol

Tom M. Apostol
Apostol in 1965
Born(1923-08-20)August 20, 1923
Helper, Utah, U.S.
DiedMay 8, 2016(2016-05-08) (aged 92)
Alma materUniversity of Washington (B.S., M.S.)
University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.)
Scientific career
FieldsAnalytic number theory
InstitutionsCalifornia Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorDerrick Henry Lehmer
Doctoral studentsBasil Gordon
Abe Sklar

Tom Mike Apostol (/əˈpɑːsəl/ ə-POSS-əl;[1] August 20, 1923 – May 8, 2016)[2] was an American mathematician and professor at the California Institute of Technology specializing in analytic number theory, best known as the author of widely used mathematical textbooks, including Calculus in two volumes.

Life and career

Apostol was born on August 20, 1923, in Helper, Utah. His parents, Emmanouil Apostolopoulos and Efrosini Papathanasopoulos, were Greek immigrants.[3] Apostolopoulos's name was shortened to Mike Apostol when he obtained his United States citizenship, and Tom Apostol inherited this Americanized surname.[3]

Apostol received his Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering in 1944, Master's degree in mathematics from the University of Washington in 1946, and a PhD in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1948.[4] Thereafter Apostol was a faculty member at UC Berkeley, MIT, and Caltech. He was the author of several influential graduate and undergraduate level textbooks.

Apostol was the creator and project director for Project MATHEMATICS! producing videos which explore basic topics in high school mathematics. He helped popularize the visual calculus devised by Mamikon Mnatsakanian with whom he also wrote a number of papers, many of which appeared in the American Mathematical Monthly. He also provided academic content for an acclaimed video lecture series on introductory physics, The Mechanical Universe.

In 2001, Apostol was elected into the Academy of Athens as a Corresponding Member.[5][6] He received the Lester R. Ford Award for expository excellence in 2005,[7][8][9] 2008,[10] and 2010.[11] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[12]

Bibliography

  • Apostol, Tom M. (1957). Mathematical Analysis: A modern approach to advanced calculus (1st ed.). Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-00288-4. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  • Apostol, Tom M. (1961). Calculus, Volume 1: Introduction, with vectors and analytic geometry (1st ed.). Blaisdell.
  • Apostol, Tom M. (1962). Calculus, Volume 2: Calculus of several variables with applications to probability and vector analysis (1st ed.). Blaisdell.
  • Apostol, Tom M. (1967). Calculus, Volume 1: One-variable calculus, with an introduction to linear algebra (2nd ed.). Wiley. ISBN 0-536-00005-0. MR 0214705. Zbl 0148.28201.
  • Apostol, Tom M. (1969). Calculus, Volume 2: Multi-variable calculus and linear algebra with applications to differential equations and probability (2nd ed.). Wiley. ISBN 0-471-00008-6.
  • Apostol, Tom M. (1974). Mathematical Analysis (2nd ed.). Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0201002881.
  • Apostol, Tom M. (1976). Introduction to Analytic Number Theory. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0-387-90163-9.
  • Apostol, Tom M. (1976). Modular Functions and Dirichlet Series in Number Theory (1st ed.). Springer-Verlag.
  • Apostol, Tom M. (1990). Modular Functions and Dirichlet Series in Number Theory (2nd ed.). Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0-387-90185-X.
  • Apostol, Tom M. (1997). Linear Algebra: A first course, with applications to differential equations. Wiley. ISBN 978-0471174219.
  • Apostol, Tom M. (2008). The Mechanical Universe: Mechanics and heat, advanced edition (with Steven C. Frautschi, Richard P. Olenick, and David L. Goodstein ed.). Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0-521-30432-6.
  • Apostol, Tom M. (2012). New Horizons in Geometry (with Mamikon Mnatsakanian ed.). MAA Press. ISBN 088385354X.

Notes

  1. ^ Ramakrishnan, Dinakar (November 5, 2013). "Dinakar Ramakrishnan introduces Tom Apostol at the 23rd Annual Charles R. DePrima Memorial Undergraduate Mathematics Lecture" (video). youtube.com. California Institute of Technology.
  2. ^ "Tom M. Apostol, 1923–2016". Archived from the original on 2016-05-11. Retrieved 2016-05-09.
  3. ^ a b Albers, Donald J.; Apostol, Tom (1997). "An Interview with Tom Apostol". The College Mathematics Journal. 28 (4): 250–270. doi:10.2307/2687147. JSTOR 2687147.
  4. ^ Tom M. Apostol at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ «Professor Elected to Greek Academy», Caltech Media Relations.
  6. ^ "Members of the First Section". Academy of Athens. Archived from the original on 3 June 2016. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  7. ^ Apostol, Tom; Mnatsakanian, Mamikon (2004). "Isoperimetric and Isoparametric Problems". Amer. Math. Monthly. 111 (2): 118–136. doi:10.2307/4145213. JSTOR 4145213.
  8. ^ Apostol, Tom; Mnatsakanian, Mamikon (2004). "A Fresh Look at the Method of Archimedes". Amer. Math. Monthly. 111 (6): 496–508. doi:10.2307/4145068. JSTOR 4145068.
  9. ^ Apostol, Tom; Mnatsakanian, Mamikon (2004). "Figures Circumscribing Circles". Amer. Math. Monthly. 111 (10): 853–863. doi:10.2307/4145094. JSTOR 4145094.
  10. ^ Apostol, Tom. M.; Mnatsakanian, Mamikon A. (2007). "Unwrapping Curves from Cylinders and Cones". Amer. Math. Monthly. 114 (5): 388–416. doi:10.1080/00029890.2007.11920429. JSTOR 27642220. S2CID 5953158.
  11. ^ Apostol, Tom M.; Mnatsakanian, Mamikon A. (2009). "New Insight into Cycloidal Areas". Amer. Math. Monthly. 116 (7): 598–611. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.458.6300. doi:10.4169/193009709x458573.
  12. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-03.
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