NL
Science & Medicine

Norman Levinson

Share
Who

Norman Levinson · Science & Medicine

What

Analysis, number theory, and differential equations

When

1912, Lynn, Massachusetts, USA — 1975, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Where

USA

Prizes and awards
Biography

Norman Levinson is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Analysis, number theory, and differential equations

How & why

Levinson was a mathematician at MIT who made deep contributions to Fourier analysis, complex analysis, nonlinear differential equations and number theory, including late work showing that more than a third of the zeros of the Riemann zeta function lie on the critical line. He won the Bôcher Prize and the Chauvenet Prize. He was the son of poor Russian Jewish immigrants.

Sources & external links

Verify and go deeper with these external references.

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

This page is published in seven languages from an English source. The translations are reviewed, but a mistake can still slip through. If you spot one on this profile — a wrong word, a lost date, a sentence that says something the English does not — please tell us.

Contributions & Sources

Analysis, number theory, and differential equations

1912

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics