Marvin Knopp

Marvin Isadore Knopp (January 4, 1933 – December 24, 2011) was an American mathematician who worked primarily in number theory. He made notable contributions to the theory of modular forms.

Marvin Isadore Knopp
Born	(1933-01-04)January 4, 1933 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.[1]
Died	December 24, 2011(2011-12-24) (aged 78) Boca Raton, Florida, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Illinois
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Wisconsin Temple University
Doctoral advisor	Paul T. Bateman
Doctoral students	YoungJu Choie

Life and education

Knopp was born on January 4, 1933, in Chicago, Illinois. He received his PhD under Paul T. Bateman from the University of Illinois in 1958 where he became friends with fellow student Gene Golub.^[2] Over the course of his career, he advised twenty Ph.D. students.^[3] He is the father of pianist Seth Knopp, and of Yehudah, Abby, and Elana.^[4] Marvin was married to Josephine Zadovsky Knopp for 25 years. Knopp died on December 24, 2011, during a vacation in Florida. Marvin found happiness from his children, old movies, great music and numbers. During the 6 years following his death, his papers and books were organized (with the help of Wladimer Pribitkin), his photographs and his mathematical correspondence, were donated to the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM). On AIM's website, you can find 131 of Knopp's reprints.

Personal life

Knopp was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1933. He was an Ashkenazi Jew.^{[citation needed]}

Career

After receiving his PhD in 1958, Knopp taught at the University of Wisconsin and then, for a few years, at the University of Illinois Chicago before moving, in 1976, to Temple University where he stayed until his sudden death in 2011.^[5] Knopp was a leading expert in the theory of modular forms and a pioneering figure in the theory of Eichler cohomology, modular integrals and generalized modular forms. He was closely associated with Emil Grosswald.^[6] In Jean Dieudonné's influential book A Panorama of Pure Mathematics (Academic Press, 1982), he is mentioned (p. 95) as one of those who "made substantial contributions" to the theory of modular forms.^[7]

Selected publications

• Knopp, Marvin (1970). Modular Functions in Analytic Number Theory. Rand McNally. ISBN 0-528-60000-1.
• Knopp, Marvin; Berndt, Bruce (2008). Hecke's Theory of Modular Forms and Dirichlet Series. World Scientific Publishing Co. ISBN 978-9812706355.

Further reading

• Knopp, Marvin; Sheingorn, Mark, eds. (1993). A Tribute to Emil Grosswald. Providence: American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-5155-5. Retrieved 2009-02-06. A set of papers in honor of Grosswald; includes reminiscences, list of PhD students, and a list of papers and books.
• Temple Tribute