Basil Gordon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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mathematician
Date of Birth: 23-Dec-1931
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Date of Death: 12-Jan-2012
Profession: mathematician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Basil Gordon
- Basil Gordon (December 23, 1931 – January 12, 2012) was a mathematician at UCLA, specializing in number theory and combinatorics.
- He obtained his Ph.D.
- at California Institute of Technology under the supervision of Tom Apostol.
- Ken Ono was one of his students. Gordon is well known for Göllnitz–Gordon identities, generalizing the Rogers–Ramanujan identities.
- He also posed the still-unsolved Gaussian moat problem in 1962.Gordon was drafted into the US Army, where he worked with the former Nazi rocket scientist, Wernher von Braun.
- Gordon's calculations of the gravitational interactions of earth, moon, and satellite contributed to the success and longevity of Explorer I, which launched in 1958 and remained in orbit until 1970.
- He was the step-grandson of General George Barnett and is a descendant of the Gordon family of British distillers, producers of Gordon's Gin.
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