Bruce Carl Berndt (born March 13, 1939, in

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. Berndt attended college at

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, graduating in 1961, where he also ran track. He received his master's and doctoral degrees from the

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. He lectured for a year at the

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and then, in 1967, was appointed an assistant professor at the

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, where he has remained since. In 1973–74 he was a visiting scholar at the

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in Princeton. He is currently () Michio Suzuki Distinguished Research Professor of Mathematics at the University of Illinois. Berndt is an analytic number theorist who is probably best known for his work explicating the discoveries of

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. He is a coordinating editor of

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and, in 1996, received an expository Steele Prize from the

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for his work editing ''Ramanujan's Notebooks''. A

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was given to Berndt, with Gerd Almkvist, in 1989 and to Berndt, with S. Bhargava, in 1994. In 2012 he became a fellow of the

. In December 2012 he received an honorary doctorate from

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, India.

Selected publications

*''Ramanujan: Letters and Commentary (History of Mathematics, V. 9)'', by Bruce C. Berndt and Robert A. Rankin (American Mathematical Society, 1995, ) *''Ramanujan: Essays and Surveys (History of Mathematics, V. 22)'', by Bruce C. Berndt and Robert A. Rankin (American Mathematical Society, 2001, )
''The Continued Fractions Found in the Unorganized Portions of Ramanujan's Notebooks (Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society)''
by Bruce C. Berndt, L. Jacobsen, R. L. Lamphere, George E. Andrews (Editor), Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar (Editor) (American Mathematical Society, 1993, ) *''Ramanujan's Notebooks, Part I'', by Bruce C. Berndt (Springer, 1985, ) *''Ramanujan's Notebooks, Part II'', by Bruce C. Berndt (Springer, 1999, ) *''Ramanujan's Notebooks, Part III'', by Bruce C. Berndt (Springer, 2004, ) *''Ramanujan's Notebooks, Part IV'', by Bruce C. Berndt (Springer, 1993, ) *''Ramanujan's Notebooks, Part V'', by Bruce C. Berndt (Springer, 2005, ) *''Ramanujan's Lost Notebook, Part I'', by George Andrews and Bruce C. Berndt (Springer, 2005, ) *''Ramanujan's Lost Notebook, Part II'', George E. Andrews, Bruce C. Berndt (Springer, 2008, ) * ''Ramanujan's Lost Notebook: Part III'', George E. Andrews, Bruce C. Berndt (Springer, 2012, ) * ''Ramanujan's Lost Notebook: Part IV'', George E. Andrews, Bruce C. Berndt (Springer, 2013, ) * ''Ramanujan's Lost Notebook: Part V'', George E. Andrews, Bruce C. Berndt (Springer, 2018, ) *''Number Theory in the Spirit of Ramanujan'' by Bruce C. Berndt (American Mathematical Society, 2006, ) *''Number Theory and Modular Forms: Papers in Memory of Robert A. Rankin (Developments in Mathematics)'', by Bruce Berndt (Editor),

Ken Ono Ken Ono (born March 20, 1968) is a Japanese-American mathematician who specializes in number theory, especially in integer partitions, modular forms, umbral moonshine, the Riemann Hypothesis and the fields of interest to Srinivasa Ramanujan. He ...

(Editor) (Springer, 2003, )

References

External links

Bruce C. Berndt
home page at UIUC.
University of Illinois LASNews article on Berndt's work with Ramanujan's Lost Notebooks
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Selected publications

See also

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