Named in honour of Ivan M. Niven (b. 1915, d. 1999), a Canadian-U.S. mathematician who worked mainly in number theory. In 1943 he completed the proof of Waring's conjecture, a conjecture formulated in 1770 to the effect that every positive integer is the sum of a finite number of n-th powers of integers.
Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid
Reference: MPC 38202
Name:
Niven
Number:
12513
Designation:
1998 HC20
Disc. Date:
1998-04-27
Discoverer:
Comba, P.G.
Disc. Place:
Prescott