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Bohuslav Diviš

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Bohuslav Diviš (December 20, 1942 – July 26, 1976) was a Czech mathematician, who worked in the field of number theory.[1][2][3]

Biography

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Bohuslav Diviš was born on December 20, 1942, in Prague. He won the Czechoslovak and International Mathematical Olympiad in 1959 and then studied mathematics at Charles University in Prague (as a student of Vojtěch Jarník). He wrote his thesis in 1966 and his doctorate in 1969 with a thesis on "superlattice points in multidimensional ellipsoids" at the Heidelberg University under Peter Roquette.[1]

In 1970 Diviš became Assistant Professor at Ohio State University (USA), and after 1973 an Associate Professor. He authored about 20 scientific articles.

On July 26, 1976, during a conference visit to Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, he died of heart failure at the age of 33.

Literature

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  • B. Diviš: On the sums of continued fractions, Acta Arithmetica 22, 157–173, 1973
  • ders.: Lattice point theory of irrational ellipsoids with an arbitrary center, Monatsh. Math. 83, 279–307, 1977
  • ders.: Ω-estimates in lattice point theory, Acta Arithmetica 35, 247–258, 1979
  • F. Fricker: Einführung in die Gitterpunktlehre, Birkhäuser, 1982

References

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  1. ^ a b Journal of Number Theory vol.9 Issue 1, 1977
  2. ^ Bohuslav Diviš at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ "Record of Proceedings of the Board of Trustees of the Ohio State University 1976-77" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-02-02. Retrieved 2016-02-02.