Harold P. Boas | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 26, 1954 (1954-06-26) (age 71) |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (1976) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1980) |
| Awards | Stefan Bergman Prize (1995) Lester R. Ford Award (2007) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Columbia University Texas A&M University |
| Doctoral advisor | Norberto Kerzman |
| Website | haroldpboas |
Harold P. Boas (born June 26, 1954) is anAmericanmathematician, professor emeritus ofTexas A&M University, where he wasProfessor and Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence in the department ofmathematics.[1]
Boas was born inEvanston, Illinois, United States. He is the youngest of three children of two noted mathematicians,Ralph P. Boas, Jr andMary L. Boas.[2]
He received his A.B. and S.M. degrees inapplied mathematics fromHarvard University in 1976[3] and hisPh.D. inmathematics from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980 under the direction ofNorberto Kerzman.[4]
Boas was aJ. F. Ritt Assistant Professor atColumbia University (1980–1984) before moving toTexas A&M University as an assistant professor, where he advanced to the rank of associate professor in 1987 and full professor in 1992.[3] He was given the University title ofPresidential Professor for Teaching Excellence in 2012 and the System title ofRegents Professor in 2014.[1]
He has held visiting positions at theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and theMathematical Sciences Research Institute inBerkeley, California.
Boas has published over thirty papers twelve of which he coauthored with his colleagueEmil J. Straube. Starting from late 80s until mid 90s, they had a spectacular progress in the study of global regularity of theBergman projection and of the∂-Neumann problem. In particular, they have proved the global regularity in the sense of preservation ofSobolev spaces on large class ofpseudoconvex domains.[3] Boas also provided a counterexample to the Lu Qi-Keng Conjecture which was raised by Lu Qi-Keng in 1966 and asked whether it was true for every bounded domain that theBergman kernel function had no zeroes.[5]
He has also published more than 200 short reviews forzbMathOpen and more than 550 reviews forMathematical Reviews overMathSciNet.
Boas was part of Russian Translation Project of the American Mathematical Society and translated more than 84 Russian research articles in English as well as a book byAlexander M. Kytmanov from Russian into English.
He has served as the editor of theNotices of the American Mathematical Society between 2011 and 2003, took part in editorial duties in several research journals.
He was the winner of the 1995Stefan Bergman Prize of theAmerican Mathematical Society.[3] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Boas is also known for his excellence in teaching and expository works, includingReflections on the arbelos (for which he won theChauvenet Prize in 2009).[6] He has twice won theLester R. Ford Award of theMathematical Association of America in 2007 and 2017.[6][1]
He has revised and updated his father's books, such as the fourth edition ofA Primer of Real Functions and the second edition ofInvitation to Complex Analysis.
