Edgar Odell Lovett
Edgar Odell Lovett (born April 14, 1871 in Shreve , Ohio , † August 13, 1957 in Houston , Texas ) was an American mathematician and the first president of the Rice Institute in Houston.
Life
Edgar Lovett studied at Bethany College in Bethany , West Virginia , with a bachelor's degree in 1890, was then a teacher at West Kentucky College and received his doctorate in mathematics at the University of Virginia in 1895 and again in 1896 with Sophus Lie at the University of Leipzig (Theory of perturbations and Lie's theory of contact transformations) (he was also in Oslo). He taught at Johns Hopkins University , the University of Virginia and the University of Chicago before becoming an instructor at Princeton University in 1897 . In 1898 he became assistant professor there and in 1900 professor. From 1905 to 1908 he was head of the Faculty of Mathematics and Astronomy. In 1907 he was elected as the first president of Rice University (then Rice Institution) on the advice of Woodrow Wilson (then President of Princeton), which he accepted in 1908 (officially assumed office in 1912). He built up the new university (based on models he studied in Europe and Japan) and stayed there until his retirement in 1946. His successor was William V. Houston .
Lovett was invited speaker at the 1900 International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris . He has received multiple honorary doctorates and is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .
In 1898 he married Mary Allen Hale and had two daughters and two sons.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Edgar Odell Lovett in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lovett, Edgar Odell |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shreve , Ohio |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 13, 1957 |
| Place of death | Houston , Texas |