Frank Morley
Frank Morley (born September 9, 1860 in Woodbridge (Suffolk) , England , † October 17, 1937 in Baltimore ( Maryland ), USA ) was a British mathematician who was particularly active in the fields of algebra and geometry . The best known is the Morley triangle , which he discovered and named after him .
Morley received a bachelor's degree from Cambridge University and went to the United States in 1887 , where he taught at Haverford College and in 1900 took over the chair of mathematics at Johns Hopkins University . In 1917 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
He was President of the American Mathematical Society from 1919 to 1920 .
As a strong chess player , he even defeated the world chess champion Emanuel Lasker once .
literature
- with James Harkness : Elementary Treatise on the Theory of Functions, 1893
- with Harkness: Introduction to the Theory of Analytic Functions, 1898
- On the Lüroth Quartic Curve, 1919
- Inversive Geometry, 1933
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Frank Morley. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Morley, Frank |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Woodbridge (Suffolk) , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 17, 1937 |
| Place of death | Baltimore ( Maryland ), United States |