Tom M. Apostol

Tom M. Apostol

Tom Mike Apostol (born 1923) is an American analytic number theorist and professor at the California Institute of Technology.

He was born in Helper, Utah in 1923. His parents, Emmanouil and Efrosini Papathanasopoulos, were originally from Greece.cite journal | last=Albers | first=Donald J. | title=An Interview with Tom Apostol | journal=The College Mathematics Journal | year=1997 | volume=28, No. 4 | pages=250–270 | doi=10.2307/2687147] Mr. Apostolopoulos's name was shortened to Mike Apostol upon immigrating to the United States in 1916, and Tom Apostol inherited this Americanized surname.

Apostol received his Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering, Master's degree in mathematics from the University of Washington, and He received his PhD in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1948, [MathGenealogy|id=8007] . Dr. Apostol has since been a faculty member at UC Berkeley, the MIT, and CalTech. He is the author of several influential graduate and undergraduate level textbooks.

He is a well-known teacher. He is the creator and project director for Project MATHEMATICS! producing videos which explore basic topics in high school mathematics. He has helped proselytize the Visual Calculus devised by Mamikon Mnatsakanian with whom he has also written a number of papers. Dr. Apostol also provided academic content for the acclaimed video lecture series on introductory physics, The Mechanical Universe.

On Feb. 20 2001 he was also elected in the Greek Academy [http://pr.caltech.edu/media/Press_Releases/PR12111.html] .

Bibliography

* "Mathematical Analysis: A modern approach to advanced calculus" ISBN 0-201-00288-4
* "Introduction to Analytic Number Theory", (1976) Springer-Verlag, New York. ISBN 0-387-90163-9
* "Modular Functions and Dirichlet Series in Number Theory", (1990) Springer-Verlag, New York. ISBN 0-387-90185-X
* "Calculus, Volume 1, One-Variable Calculus with an Introduction to Linear Algebra", (1961) ISBN 0-471-00005-1
* "Calculus, Volume 2, Multi-Variable Calculus and Linear Algebra with Applications" ISBN 0-471-00007-8

References

External links

* [http://www.math.caltech.edu/people/apostol.html Tom M. Apostol, Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, Caltech]
* [http://www.its.caltech.edu/~mamikon/VisualCalc.html A VISUAL Approach to CALCULUS problems]
* [http://www.projectmathematics.com/ Project MATHEMATICS!]


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