Arthur Mattuck

{{Short description|American mathematician (1930–2021)}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date |1930|6|11}}

| birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, US

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2021|10|8|1930|6|11}}

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| workplaces = Massachusetts Institute of Technology

| alma_mater = Swarthmore College (BA)
Princeton University (PhD)

| thesis_title = Abelian Varieties over P-Adic Ground Fields

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| thesis_year = 1954

| doctoral_advisor = Emil Artin

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| doctoral_students = Alberto Collino

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Arthur Paul Mattuck (June 11, 1930{{Cite web|title=Arthur Mattuck, professor emeritus of mathematics, dies at 91|url=https://news.mit.edu/2021/arthur-mattuck-professor-emeritus-mathematics-dies-1102|access-date=2022-01-07|website=MIT News {{!}} Massachusetts Institute of Technology|date=2 November 2021 |language=en}} – October 8, 2021{{Cite web|title=Arthur Mattuck, professor emeritus of mathematics, dies at 91|url=https://news.mit.edu/2021/arthur-mattuck-professor-emeritus-mathematics-dies-1102|access-date=2022-01-07|website=MIT News {{!}} Massachusetts Institute of Technology|date=2 November 2021 |language=en}}) was an emeritus professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.{{cite book|title=World Who's Who in Science: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Scientists from Antiquity to the Present|author1=Debus, A.G.|author2=Marquis Who's Who, Inc|date=1968|volume=2|publisher=Marquis-Who's Who, Incorporated|isbn=9780837910017|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vWlO8FtShvQC|accessdate=2015-08-27}} He may be best known for his 1998 book, Introduction to Analysis ({{ISBN|013-0-81-1327}}) and his differential equations video lectures featured on MIT's OpenCourseWare.{{Cite web|url=https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-03-differential-equations-spring-2010/index.htm|title=Differential Equations}}

Mattuck was a student of Emil Artin at Princeton University, where he completed his PhD in 1954.{{mathgenealogy|id=24343}}

Recognition

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[https://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved 2013-02-02.

Personal life

From 1959 to 1977 Mattuck was married to chemist Joan Berkowitz.{{cite web | url=http://chemistry.illinois.edu/events/lectures/SM_Stoesser_Lectures_in_Chemistry/Joan_Berkowitz.html | title=Sylvia M. Stoesser Lectures in Chemistry: Joan B. Berkowitz | publisher=Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | year=2010 | accessdate=2011-07-07 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100704105137/http://www.chemistry.illinois.edu/events/lectures/SM_Stoesser_Lectures_in_Chemistry/Joan_Berkowitz.html | archive-date=2010-07-04 | url-status=dead }} Mattuck is quoted extensively in Sylvia Nasar's biography of John Nash, A Beautiful Mind.

He was the brother of the physicist Richard Mattuck.

He died on October 8, 2021, at age of 91. He was survived by his daughter Rosemary and her partner Jeffrey Broadman, and three nephews (Allan, Robin, and Martin).{{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/arthur-mattuck-obituary?id=30413553|title = Arthur P. Mattuck Obituary (2021) New York Times|website = Legacy.com}}

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