Cecil J. Nesbitt
Cecil James Nesbitt (born October 10, 1912 in Fort William , Ontario , † October 22, 2001 ) was a Canadian - American mathematician .
Nesbitt grew up in Edmonton , where his family moved in 1922, and graduated from high school in 1929. He studied from 1930 at the University of Toronto with a bachelor's degree in 1934 and a master's degree in 1935. In 1937 he received his doctorate there under Richard Brauer ( On the regular representations of algebras ). As a post-doctoral student , he was at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1937/38 on the recommendation of Brauer . From 1938 he was at the University of Michigan , where he was assistant professor in 1941, associate professor in 1946 and professor in 1952. In 1960/61 and 1970/71 he headed the mathematics faculty and from 1962 to 1967 he was deputy faculty director. In 1980 he retired.
Initially, he dealt with algebra and representation theory, which among other things led to several articles in the Annals of Mathematics and a book with Emil Artin about Artin rings . He later turned to actuarial mathematics, about which he wrote a standard work with co-authors in 1986.
With his doctoral student (1963) Donald R. Schuette, he developed the Schuette-Nesbitt formula in actuarial mathematics. He trained many senior actuaries (and several subsequent presidents of insurance companies in the United States).
Nesbitt has also been practical, for example, in successfully advising the University of Michigan pension fund and developing pension fund plans for government employees in Puerto Rico and Costa Rica .
From 1985 to 1987 he was Vice President of the Society of Actuaries, of which he became a Fellow in 1946. In 1988 he received the Distinguished Faculty Governance Award from the University of Michigan.
He had been married since 1938 and had two sons who both died early of cystic fibrosis. He had been a US citizen since 1946.
Fonts
- with Emil Artin, Robert M. Thrall Rings with minimum condition , University of Michigan Press 1944
- with Marjorie Butcher Mathematics of compound interest , Ulrichs Books 1971
- with Newton L. Bowers, Hans U. Gerber, James C. Hickman, Donald A. Jones Actuarial Mathematics , Society of Actuaries, 1986, 2nd edition 1997
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nesbitt, Cecil J. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nesbitt, Cecil James |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian-American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fort William , Ontario |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 22, 2001 |