Paul C. Rosenbloom

Paul Charles Rosenbloom was an American mathematician, born in Portsmouth, Virginia, in 1920 and died in 2005. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania, where as an undergraduate he became a Putnam Fellow in 1941, and in 1944 he earned his PhD at Stanford University under Gábor Szegő with a thesis on sequences of polynomials, especially sections of power series. He was a professor of mathematics at Brown University, Syracuse University, the University of Minnesota and Teachers College, Columbia University, from which he retired as professor emeritus. His research includes analysis, special functions, differential equations, logic and the teaching of mathematics, and in the academic year 1959 to 1960 he directed the Minnesota School Mathematics Center. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1946 and spent two academic years at the Institute for Advanced Study. His doctoral students include Henry Gordon Rice.