Neuman received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Wrocław in 1972[4] under the supervision of wmpl:Stefan Paszkowski.[5] His dissertation was entitled "Projections in Uniform Polynomial Approximation." He held positions at the Institute of Mathematics and the Institute of Computer Sciences of the University of Wroclaw,[6] and the Institute of Applied Mathematics Bonn[7] in Germany. In 1986, he took a permanent faculty position at Southern Illinois University.
Contributions
Neuman has contributed 130 journal articles[8] in computational mathematics and mathematical inequalities such as the Ky Fan inequality, on bivariate means,[9] and mathematical approximations and expansions. Neuman also developed software for computing with spline functions[10] and wrote several tutorials for the MATLAB programing software.[11] Among the mathematical concepts named after Edward Neuman are Neuman–Sándor Mean and Neuman Means, which are useful tools for advancing the theory of special functions including Jacobi elliptic functions: