Henry Pogorzelski

Template:Short description Henry Andrew Pogorzelski (September 26, 1922 - December 30, 2015)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> was an American mathematician of Polish descent,<ref name="pole">Template:Citation.</ref> a professor of mathematics at the University of Maine. Much of Pogorzelski's research concerns the Goldbach conjecture, the still-unsolved problem of whether every even number can be represented as a sum of two prime numbers.<ref name="sj"/><ref name="conundrum">Template:Citation.</ref>

Born in Harrison, New Jersey,<ref>Staff. A COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS: The Institute for Advanced Study Faculty and Members 1930-1980 Template:Webarchive, p. 330. Institute for Advanced Study, 1980. Accessed November 22, 2015. "Pogorzelski, Henry Andrew 64-65, 66-67 M, Semiological Number Theory Born 1922 Harrison, NJ."</ref> Pogorzelski served in the U.S. Army in World War II.<ref name="pole"/> He served as editor of Mathematical Reviews from 1957 to 1964<ref>The Editors of Mathematical Reviews, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2010-02-04.</ref> and studied at the Institute for Advanced Study under André Weil.<ref name="pole"/> He received his Ph.D. from CUNY in 1969 under the advisor Raymond Smullyan; his dissertation was on "Goldbach Sentences in Some Abstract Arithmetics Constructed from a Generalization of Ordinary Recursive Arithmetic".<ref>Template:Mathgenealogy.</ref> In 1974, after he had joined the Maine faculty, he was the only American invited by the Polish Academy of Sciences to visit Poland for the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Copernicus.<ref name="pole"/> In 2002, the University of Maine attempted to suspend Pogorzelski from teaching duties, but backed down after he filed an age discrimination complaint.<ref>Template:Citation.</ref>

As well as holding a faculty position at the University of Maine, Pogorzelski was the director of the Research Institute for Mathematics (formerly known as the Research Institute for Semiological Mathematics), an independent research institute located near the University of Maine in Orono, Maine and modeled after the Institute for Advanced Study.<ref name="rejected">Template:Citation.</ref><ref name="dgi">Maine Higher Education – Presidents of Degree-Granting Institutions, Maine Department of Education, retrieved 2010-02-04.</ref><ref name="rim">Research Institute for Mathematics web site, accessed 2010-02-04.</ref> He proposed in 1993 to offer doctorates through the institute; the proposal was rejected at the time,<ref name="sj">Template:Citation.</ref><ref name="conundrum"/><ref name="rejected"/> but the Research Institute for Mathematics is now the only institution in Maine that grants doctoral degrees in mathematics.<ref name="dgi"/><ref name="rim"/> Henry Pogorzelski died December 30, 2015, in Orono, Maine.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

External links

• Pogorzelski's web site at the University of Maine.
• In memoriam page at the University of Maine.