Clarence Raymond Adams

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Clarence Raymond Adams (born April 10, 1898 in Cranston (Rhode Island) , † October 15, 1965 ) was an American mathematician who dealt with analysis and especially partial difference equations .

Adams attended Cranston High School and from 1915 studied economics at Brown University , but then switched to mathematics with a degree in 1918 and received his doctorate in 1922 at Harvard University under George David Birkhoff . The subject of the dissertation was partial difference equations ( The General Theory of the Linear Partial q-Difference Equation and of the Linear Partial Difference Equation of the Intermediate Type ). As a post-doctoral student he was a Sheffield Traveling Scholar at Harvard University with Tullio Levi-Civita at the University of Rome (La Sapienza) and with Richard Courant at the University of Göttingen . In 1923 he became an instructor at Brown University, where he received a full professorship in 1936. From 1942 to 1960 he headed the mathematics faculty and in 1965 he retired.

His PhD students include Anthony Morse and James A. Clarkson . In 1932 Adams was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , he was a member and vice president of the American Mathematical Society , as well as a member of the board of the Mathematical Association of America .

In 1922 he married the mathematician Rachel Blodgett , who accompanied him on his research trips.

Fonts

  • The general theory of a class of linear partial q-difference equations, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., Vol. 26, 1924, pp. 283-312
  • On the linear ordinary q-difference equations, Annals of Mathematics, Volume 30, 1929, pp. 195-205
  • On the linear partial q-difference equations of general type, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., Vol. 31, 1929, pp. 360-371
  • Linear q-difference equations, Bulletin Amer. Math. Soc., Vol. 37, 1931, pp. 361-400
  • Transformations of double sequences with application to Cesàro summability of double series, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Vol. 37, 1931, pp. 741-748

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Clarence Raymond Adams in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Adams, Clarence Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Cranston (Rhode Island)
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1965