Joseph Arkin ((1923-05-25)May 25, 1923 – (2002-08-05)August 5, 2002) was a mathematician, lecturer and professor at the West Point military academy.
Professor Joseph Arkin worked at the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the United States Military Academy since 1986, until he retired from the faculty on September 23, 1994.
[1] He also spent time as a visiting lecturer at Princeton and The New York Academy of Sciences.
[1] Most of his contributions and collaborative academic research was in the branch of number theory.
[1][3] He authored and co-authored publications, in collaboration with notable mathematicians like Paul Erdős, Ronald Graham, E.G. Straus, Richard Pollack, Vern Hoggatt, Paul Smith, V.E.