David Raymond Curtiss

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David Raymond Curtiss (born January 12, 1878 in Derby (Connecticut) , † April 28, 1953 in Redlands (California) ) was an American mathematician.

Life

Curtiss graduated from the University of California, Berkeley , with a bachelor's degree in 1899 and a master's degree in 1901, and received his PhD in mathematics from Harvard University in 1903 with Maxime Bôcher (and William Fogg Osgood ) (Binary Families in a Triply Connected Region with Especial Reference to Hypergeometric Families). As a post-doctoral student , he was at the École normal supérieure in Paris. In 1904 he taught at Yale University and from 1905 to 1943 he was a professor at Northwestern University , where he headed the mathematics faculty for twenty years. He and his wife, who was terminally ill, committed suicide in their garage from car exhaust.

He wrote textbooks on trigonometry and function theory.

1935/36 he was president of the Mathematical Association of America . He was also vice president of the American Mathematical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

He was the father of mathematician John H. Curtiss and brother of astronomer Ralph Hamilton Curtiss (1880-1929), professor at the University of Michigan and director of the Detroit Observatory.

Fonts

  • with Elton James Moulton: Plane trigonometry: based on essentials of trigonometry with applications, Boston: Heath 1943
  • Analytic functions of a complex variable, Carus Mathematical Monographs, Chicago: Open Court 1926

literature

  • EJ Moulton: Obituary: David Raymond Curtiss. The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 60, 1953, No. 8, pp. 566-569.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Report in the Chicago Tribune, April 30, 1953
personal data
SURNAME Curtiss, David Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Derby (Connecticut)
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1953
Place of death Redlands, California