Leonard Carlitz (December 26, 1907 – September 17, 1999) was an American mathematician. Carlitz supervised 44 doctorates at Duke University and published over 770 papers.
Chronology
1907 Born Philadelphia, PA, USA
1927 BA, University of Pennsylvania
1930 PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1930 under Howard Mitchell, who had studied under Oswald Veblen at Princeton
1930–31 at Caltech with E. T. Bell
1931 married Clara Skaler
1931–32 at Cambridge with G. H. Hardy
1932 Joined the faculty of Duke University where he served for 45 years
1938 to 1973 Editorial Board Duke Mathematical Journal (Managing Editor from 1945.)
1939 Birth of son Michael
1940 Supervision of his first doctoral student E. F. Canaday, awarded 1940
1945 Birth of son Robert
1964 First James B. Duke Professor in Mathematics
1977 Supervised his 44th and last doctoral student, Jo Ann Lutz, awarded 1977
1977 Retired
1990 Death of wife Clara, after 59 years of marriage
1999 September 17 Died in Pittsburgh, PA
Mathematical work
The Carlitz module is generalized by the Drinfeld module
An identity regarding Bernoulli numbers
Carlitz wrote about Bessel polynomials
He introduced Al-Salam–Carlitz polynomials.
Carlitz' identity for bicentric quadrilaterals
He conjectured the Carlitz-Wan conjecture, later proved by Daqing Wan.
Publication
Leonard Carlitz published about 771 technical papers comprising approximately 7,000 pages. The effort to edit his collected works, undertaken originally by Professor John Brillhart, is ongoing.[1][2]
See also
Bateman polynomials
Carlitz exponential
Carlitz polynomial (disambiguation)
Maillet's determinant
Reciprocal Fibonacci constant
References
^ Joel V. Brawley, John Brillhart and Henry W. Gould, "Recollections of Leonard Carlitz", Acta Arithmetica, Vol. 152(2012), No. 4, 361–372. ^ Joel V. Brawley, John Brillhart, and Henry W. Gould (editors), "The publications of Leonard Carlitz", Acta Arithmetica. Vol. 152(2012), No. 4, 373–405. Annotated Catalogue of Carlitz's 773 publications.
Joel V. Brawley, Brillhart and Henry E. Gould, "Recollections of Leonard Carlitz", Acta Arithmetica, Vol. 152(2012), No. 4, 361–372.
Joel V. Brawley, John Brillhart, and Henry W. Gould (editors), "The publications of Leonard Carlitz", Acta Arithmetica. Vol. 152(2012), No. 4, 373–405. Annotated Catalogue of Carlitz's 773 publications.
Brawley, Joel V. (2000), "In memoriam: Leonard Carlitz (1907–1999)", Finite Fields and Their Applications, 6 (3): 203–206, doi:10.1006/ffta.2000.0276, ISSN 1071-5797, MR 1772617
Brawley, Joel V. (1995), "Dedicated to Leonard Carlitz: the man and his work", Finite Fields and Their Applications, 1 (2): 135–151, doi:10.1006/ffta.1995.1011, ISSN 1071-5797, MR 1337739
Hayes, David R. (2001), "Leonard Carlitz (1907–1999)" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 48 (11): 1322–1324, ISSN 0002-9920, MR 1870635
Howard, F. T. (2000), "In memoriam—Leonard Carlitz", Fibonacci Quarterly, 38 (4): 316, ISSN 0015-0517, MR 1775253
External links
Obituary at Duke's Math Newsletter
Leonard Carlitz at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Leonard Carlitz", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
zbMATH.org author profile
Hellenica World - Scientific Library
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