John Albert Ewell III

at
CAARMS 9 June 2003

Born: February 28, 1928 - July 21, 2007

Birthplace: Newellton, Louisiana

B.A. in Chemistry (Morehouse College-1948); M.S. in Mathematics (1955) University of California at Los Angeles

Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles 1966
thesis: On the Determination of Sets by Sets of Sums of Fixed Order; Advisor: Ernst Straus

Research Interests: Number Theory

John Albert Ewell earned a B.A. in Chemistry (Morehouse College-1948), and was a graduate student in Physical-Chemistry (University of Colorado,1949-51). He earned, from the University of California at Los Angeles, an M.S. (1955) and a Ph.D. (1966) in Mathematics. From 1955 to 1970, he held the position of Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Southern University, California State University Long Beach, and York University Ontario, Canada. In 1970, Dr. Ewell became Associate Professor at California State University Sonoma. From 1973 to 1998 he taught at Northern Illinois University from which he retired as Professor Emeritus August 15, 1998.

From 1968 until retirement in 1998, John Albert Ewell III published 43 papers in Mathematics. He has published 4 papers since retiring. In June 2003 Dr. Ewell gave a lectre on his research at CAARMS 9.

NIU office phone -- 815-753-6746
Home phone -- 815-758-2650

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Ewell, John A. Recursive determination of the enumerator for sums of three squares. Int. J. Math. Math. Sci. 24 (2000), no. 8, 529--532.
2. Ewell, John A. Counting lattice points on spheres. Math. Intelligencer 22 (2000), no. 4, 51--53.
3. Ewell, John A. New representations of Ramanujan's tau function. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 128 (2000), no. 3, 723--726.
4. Ewell, John A. On necessary conditions for the existence of odd perfect numbers. Rocky Mountain J. Math. 29 (1999), no. 1, 165--175.
5. Ewell, John A. On the zeta function values $\zeta(2k+1)$, $k=1,2,\cdots$, Rocky Mountain J. Math. 25 (1995), 1003--1012. 11M06 (11Yxx)
6. Ewell, John A. On representations of numbers by sums of two triangular numbers, Fibonacci Quart. 30 (1992), 175--178.
7. Ewell, John A. On values of the Riemann zeta function at integral arguments, Canad. Math. Bull. 34 (1991), 60--66.
8. Ewell, John A. On a function related to Ramanujan's tau function, Internat. J. Math. Math. Sci. 8 (1985), 795--797.
9. Ewell, John A. A simple proof of Fermat's two-square theorem, Amer. Math. Monthly 90 (1983) 635--637.
10. Ewell, John A. On the counting function for sums of two squares, Acta Arith. 40 (1981/82), 213--215. 10J05
11. Ewell, John A. On the determination of sets by sets of sums of fixed order, Canad. J. Math. 20 (1968), 596--611. 05.04

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