Bohuslav Diviš (December 20, 1942 – July 26, 1976) was a Czech mathematician, who worked in the field of

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Biography

Bohuslav Diviš was born on December 20, 1942, in

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. He won the Czechoslovak and

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in 1959 and then studied mathematics at

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in Prague (as a student of

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). He wrote his thesis in 1966 and his doctorate in 1969 with a thesis on "superlattice points in multidimensional ellipsoids" at the

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under

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. In 1970 Diviš became assistant professor at

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(USA), and after 1973 an associate professor. He authored about 20 scientific articles. On July 26, 1976, during a conference visit to

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, he died of heart failure at the age of 33.

Literature

* B. Diviš: ''On the sums of continued fractions'',

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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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