Bruce C. Berndt

Bruce Carl Berndt
Born (1939-03-13) March 13, 1939 (age 85)
St. Joseph, Michigan, U.S.
Alma mater
Known forRamanujan's notebooks
Scientific career
FieldsAnalysis

Bruce Carl Berndt (born March 13, 1939) is an American mathematician. Berndt attended college at Albion College, graduating in 1961, where he also ran track. He received his master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He lectured for a year at the University of Glasgow and then, in 1967, was appointed an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he has remained since. In 1973–74 he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.[1] He is currently (as of 2006) Michio Suzuki Distinguished Research Professor of Mathematics at the University of Illinois.

Berndt is an analytic number theorist who is known for his work explicating the discoveries of Srinivasa Ramanujan.[2] He is a coordinating editor of The Ramanujan Journal and, in 1996, received an expository Steele Prize from the American Mathematical Society for his work editing Ramanujan's Notebooks.[3][4] A Lester R. Ford Award was given to Berndt, with Gert Almkvist, in 1989[5] and to Berndt, with S. Bhargava, in 1994.[6]

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[7] In December 2012 he received an honorary doctorate[8] from SASTRA University in Kumbakonam, India.

  1. ^ Berndt, Bruce Carl | Institute for Advanced Study
  2. ^ Berndt, Bruce C. (2001). "An overview of Ramanujan's notebooks" (PDF). Proc. Conf. Karl der Grosse; online at math.uiuc. edu/~berndt{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  3. ^ "Steele Prize for Bruce Berndt". OP–SF Net 4.1. 15 January 1997.
  4. ^ "1996 Steele Prizes" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 43 (11): 340–347. November 1996.
  5. ^ Almkvist, Gert; Berndt, Bruce C. (1988). "Gauss, Landen, Ramanujan, the arithmetic-geometric mean, ellipses, π and the Ladies Diary". Amer. Math. Monthly. 95 (7): 585–608. doi:10.2307/2323302. JSTOR 2323302.
  6. ^ Berndt, Bruce C.; Bhargava, S. (1993). "Ramanujan—for lowbrows". Amer. Math. Monthly. 100 (7): 644–656. doi:10.2307/2323885. JSTOR 2323885.
  7. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-10.
  8. ^ Honorary doctorates for Andrews, Askey and Berndt