A Guide to the Lowell Schoenfeld Papers, 1965-1969, 1990

Biographical Note

Schoenfeld received his Ph.D. in 1944 from the University of Pennsylvania under the direction of Hans Rademacher. He met Josephine M. Mitchell when they were both professors at the University of Illinois in the early 1950s. After they married, the University would no longer allow Mitchell to teach, so the couple both resigned their positions and eventually settled at Pennsylvania State University. In 1968 the couple moved to the University of Buffalo where they remained until their retirements in the 1980s. Schoenfeld is known for his work in analytic number theory.

Scope and Contents

This collection documents Lowell Schoenfeld's (1920-2002) work using computers to explore explicit inequalities involving prime numbers and the Riemann zeta function. These records document one of the first major efforts to use modern computational methods of analysis on the Riemann function.

Forms part of the Archives of American Mathematics.

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Preferred Citation

Lowell Schoenfeld Papers, 1965-1969,1990, Archives of American Mathematics, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.

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