Harold P. Boas

Harold P. Boas (born June 26, 1954) is an American mathematician, professor emeritus of Texas A&M University, where he was Professor and Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence in the department of mathematics.

Education He received his A.B. and S.M. degrees in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1976

Career Boas was a J. F. Ritt Assistant Professor at Columbia University (1980–1984) before moving to Texas A&M University as an assistant professor, where he advanced to the rank of associate professor in 1987 and full professor in 1992.

He has also published more than 200 short reviews for zbMathOpen and more than 550 reviews for Mathematical Reviews over MathSciNet.

Boas was part of Russian Translation Project of the American Mathematical Society and translated more than 84 Russian research articles in English as well as a book by Alexander M. Kytmanov from Russian into English.

He has served as the editor of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society between 2011 and 2003, took part in editorial duties in several research journals.

Awards He was the winner of the 1995 Stefan Bergman Prize of the American Mathematical Society. In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Boas is also known for his excellence in teaching and expository works, including Reflections on the arbelos (for which he won the Chauvenet Prize in 2009). He has twice won the Lester R. Ford Award of the Mathematical Association of America in 2007 and 2017.

He has revised and updated his father's books, such as the fourth edition of A Primer of Real Functions and the second edition of Invitation to Complex Analysis.