He graduated from UCLA with a
B.A. in Mathematics in the spring of 1944. After graduation he took a full-time job with
Douglas Aircraft but continued in graduate school at UCLA. In 1946 he received an
M.A. in mathematical statistics from UCLA. In the same year he passed the first three of eight actuarial exams. In 1947, he moved to
Hartford, Connecticut, to work for the
Aetna Life Insurance Company. He also taught an evening math class at
Trinity College. In the fall of 1947, he returned to graduate school at
Harvard University, where he became interested in number theory. He also took a class at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In June 1948 he returned to California to complete his
Ph.D. at
UC Berkeley, where he also taught classes as a
teaching assistant. In 1949 he was awarded his Ph.D. in
normal numbers from UC Berkeley. In fall of 1949 he and his family moved to
Santa Barbara where he took a job as instructor in mathematics at
Santa Barbara College of the University of California. He taught general
astronomy as well as
number theory and other math courses. After two years, he was promoted to
assistant professor. In 1950, he taught a course in
computer mathematics at
Naval Air Station Point Mugu, where computers were being developed for calculating missile trajectories. From his work at Pt Mugu, he was recruited by
IBM to work as an Applied Science Representative starting July 1951 in
Los Angeles. In 1956, he became IBM's Education Coordinator for the west coast. He traveled to interested universities in the western US to give them details of a program developed by the
UCLA Anderson School of Management about the use of computers in business. In 1958, he moved to
White Plains, New York, and continued working at IBM until his retirement in 1982. ==Selected works==