Edward B. Curtis
Edward Baldwin Curtis (born March 13, 1933 in Newburyport , Massachusetts ) is an American mathematician .
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Edward Curtis studied at Harvard University , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1954 . After a stay at the University of Oxford from 1958 to 1959, he received his Ph.D. from Harvard again in 1962. PhD . His doctoral thesis entitled The Lower Central Series for Free Group Complexes was supervised by Raoul Bott . Curtis then moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he was an Instructor (1962–1964), Assistant Professor (1964–1967) and Associate Professor (1967–1970?). Since 1970 he was at the University of Washington in Seattle . He has now retired .
His research areas are graph theory and networks . In 1967 he received the Guggenheim Fellowship for his studies on algebraic topology and in 1972 the Leroy P. Steele Prize for his work Simplicial homotopy theory .
Works
- The Lower Central Series for Free Group Complexes. Thesis (Ph.D.), Harvard University, 1962
- Simplicial homotopy theory. In: Advances in Mathematics. Volume 6, 1971, ISSN 0001-8708 , pp. 107-209, doi: 10.1016 / 0001-8708 (71) 90015-6
- Edward B. Curtis and James A. Morrow: Inverse problems for electrical networks (= Series on applied mathematics, Volume 13). World Scientific, Singapore [ua] 2000, ISBN 981-02-4174-7 ( partially digitized )
literature
- Mary Ellis Woodring and Susan Park Norton (Eds.): Reports of the President and the Treasure [of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation] 1967 and 1968. New York 1967, ISSN 0190-227X , p. 27 ( excerpt )
Web links
- Edward B. Curtis in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- Edward B. Curtis on the University of Washington page (with picture)
- Edward B. Curtis' personal website
- Image by Edward Baldwin Curtis at the MIT Museum
- Publications by Edward B. Curtis on the AMS website
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Curtis, Edward B. |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Curtis, Edward Baldwin (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1933 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Newburyport , Massachusetts |