The life and work of R. A. Rankin (1915-2001)

被引：6

作者：

Berndt, BC

Kohnen, W

Ono, K

机构：

[1] Univ Illinois, Dept Math, Urbana, IL 61801 USA

[2] Heidelberg Univ, Math Inst, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany

[3] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Math, Madison, WI 53726 USA

来源：

RAMANUJAN JOURNAL | 2003年 / 7卷 / 1-3期

关键词：

biography; modular forms; Eisenstein series; Poincare series; Rankin-Cohen brackets; Rankin-Selberg method; modular groups; differences between consecutive primes; linear forms; sums of squares; sphere packings; Ramanujan's t-function;

D O I：

10.1023/A:1026214305402

中图分类号：

O1 [数学];

学科分类号：

0701 ; 070101 ;

摘要：

Robert Alexander Rankin, an eminent Scottish number theorist and, for several decades, one of the world's foremost experts in modular forms, died on January 27, 2001 in Glasgow at the age of 85. He was one of the founding editors of The Ramanujan Journal. For this and the next two issues of the The Ramanujan Journal, many well-known mathematicians have prepared articles in Rankin's memory. In this opening paper, we provide a short biography of Rankin and discuss some of his major contributions to mathematics. At the conclusion of this article, we provide a complete list of Rankin's doctoral students and a complete bibliography of all of Rankin's writings divided into five categories: (1) Research and Expository Papers; (2) Books; (3) Books Edited; (4) Obituaries; (5) Other Writings.

引用

页码：9 / 38

页数：30