Mathematician:Ralph Philip Boas, Jr.

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Mathematician

American mathematician, teacher, and journal editor, working mainly in the fields of real and complex analysis.

Best known for his humorous applications of mathematical theorems to the practical purpose of hunting lions.

Nationality

American

History

Born: August 8, 1912 in Walla Walla, Washington
Died: July 25, 1992 in Seattle, Washington

Publications

1969: A Primer of Real Functions
Oct. 1971: Partial Sums of the Harmonic Series (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 78, no. 8: pp. 864 – 870) (with J.W. Wrench, Jr.) www.jstor.org/stable/2316476

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