Frank Ayres

Frank J. Ayres Jr. (born December 10, 1901 in Rock Hall , Maryland , † June 1994 ) was an American mathematician and author of textbooks in the book series Schaum's Outlines .

Ayres graduated from Washington College in Maryland with a bachelor's degree and received his doctorate in mathematics ( A Cremona transformation generated by a pencil of surfaces ) at the University of Chicago in 1938 under Mayme Logsdon . He taught from 1921 to 1924 at Ogden College , then at Texas A&M University and from 1928 at Dickinson College , where he was Associate Professor in 1935 and Professor in 1943. In 1943/44 he was there instructor for the Air Force as part of the war effort. From 1938 he was head of the mathematics faculty. In 1958 he retired.

He played the flute in the college orchestra.

Fonts

Usually only the dates of the first publication are given, but the books are continuously edited and reissued at Schaum's Outline.

• Basic Mathematics for Aviation 1943
• Schaum's Outline: Theory and Problems of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry
• Schaum's Outline: Theory and Problems of Projective Geometry
• Schaum's Outline: Theory and Problems of Trigonometry, 1954, Archive
• Schaum's outline of theory and problems of differential equations, 1952 (German edition 1977)
• Schaum's Outline: Theory and problems of mathematics of finance, 1963
• Schaum's outline of theory and problems of differential and integral calculus, 2nd edition 1964 (German edition 1975)
• Schaum's outline of theory and problems of modern algebra 1965 (German edition: Algebra 1978), Archive
• Schaum's Outline: Theory and problems of matrices, 1974 (German edition: Matrizen 1978)
• Schaum's Outline: Theory and problems of differential equations in SI metric units, 1972

Web links

• Biography at Dickinson College

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Frank Ayres in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)