Emory McClintock
John Emory McClintock , called Emory McClintock, (born September 19, 1840 in Carlisle (Pennsylvania) , † July 10, 1916 in Bay Head (New Jersey) ) was an American mathematician and insurance broker.
McClintock studied at Dickinson College, from 1856 at Yale University and from 1857 at Columbia College with a bachelor's degree in 1859. He was then a mathematics tutor at Columbia College before he went to Göttingen in 1860 to study chemistry. The outbreak of the Civil War prompted him to return and volunteer for the Union Army. Illness caused him to retire from the army and he was US consul in Great Britain from 1863 to 1866. From 1867 he was an insurance broker with the Asbury Life Insurance Company in New York, from 1871 with the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee and from 1889 with the Mutual Life Insurance Company in New York, where he became vice president in 1906 and retired in 1911 . Even after that, he worked as a consultant in the insurance industry.
McClintock has long been the leading actuary in the United States. In addition to work on insurance issues, he also published purely mathematical papers.
From 1890 to 1894 he was president of the American Mathematical Society and from 1895 to 1897 of the Actuarial Society of America. In 1892 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
His hobby was American history. He received honorary degrees from the University of Wisconsin (1884), Yale University (1892) and Columbia College (1895).
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Emory McClintock. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McClintock, Emory |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | McClintock, John Emory (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician and insurance broker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Carlisle, Pennsylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 1916 |
| Place of death | Bay Head, New Jersey |