Mathematician:Philip J. Davis

Mathematician

American mathematician whose main work is in numerical analysis and approximation theory.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: 2 January 1923, Lawrence, Massachusetts
• Died: 13 March 2018

Publications

• 1959: Leonhard Euler's Integral: A Historical Profile of the Gamma Function: In Memoriam: Milton Abramowitz (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 66: pp. 849 – 869)  www.jstor.org/stable/2309786

• 1980: The Mathematical Experience (with Reuben Hersh)

Contributor to:

• 1964: Handbook of Mathematical Functions (edited by Milton Abramowitz and Irene A. Stegun)