Mathematician:Edwin Mattison McMillan

Mathematician

American physicist and working in nuclear science.

Also worked on the mathematics of computation.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: 18 Sept 1907 in Redondo Beach, California
• Died: 7 Sept 1991 in El Cerrito, California

Publications

• 1950: Focusing in Linear Accelerators
• 1950: A Thick Target for Synchrotrons and Betatrons
• 1951: The Transuranium Elements: Early History (Nobel Lecture)
• 1956: Notes on Quadrupole Focusing
• 1967: Some Thoughts on Stability in Nonlinear Periodic Focusing Systems
• 1968: Some Thoughts on Stability in Nonlinear Periodic Focusing Systems [Addendum]
• 1980: Some New Algorithms for High-Precision Computation of Euler's Constant (Math. Comp. Vol. 34: pp. 305 – 312) (with Richard P. Brent)  www.jstor.org/stable/2006237