The Paul T. Bateman Fellowship in Number Theory is awarded to a graduate student actively working on research and writing his/her thesis in number theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The idea for a number theory fellowship originated with Bruce Berndt to honor Professor Paul Bateman and his many contributions to number theory and the department. The first major gift was given by former faculty member John T. Selfridge. With the support of gifts from Professor Selfridge and many friends and colleagues, Paul and Felice Bateman completed this permanent endowment in 2002.
Professor Bateman received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1946. He joined the University of Illinois mathematics faculty in 1950, served as head of the department from 1965-1980, and became an emeritus professor in 1989. He died in 2012. Twenty students received their Ph.D. under his direction. His research has covered a wide range of topics including sums of squares, the distribution of prime numbers, Beurling’s generalized prime numbers, modular forms, geometric extrema, the coefficients of the cyclotomic polynomials, and arithmetic functions. He has written joint papers with more than 20 different coauthors.
Recipients
- 2021 Robert Dicks
- 2020 Alexander Dunn
- 2019 George Shakan
- 2018 Junxian Li
- 2017 Xianchang Meng
- 2016 Amita Malik
- 2015 Nickolas Andersen
- 2014 Arindam Roy
- 2013 Dan Schultz
- 2012 Joseph Vandehey
- 2011 Khang Tran
- 2010 Atul Dixit
- 2009 Dimitrios Koukoulopoulos
- 2008 Byungchan Kim
- 2007 Sun Kim
- 2006 Timothy Kilbourn
- 2005 Stephanie Treneer
- 2004 Song Heng Chan
- 2003 Michael Bush
- 2002 Friedrich Littman