George Bruce Halsted
George Bruce Halsted (born November 25, 1853 , † March 16, 1922 ; often quoted from GB Halsted ) was an American mathematician who studied geometry .
Halsted studied at Princeton University (Bachelor in 1875, Master in 1878) and received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1879 under James Joseph Sylvester (as his first doctoral student). Then he was an instructor at Princeton until he went to professor at the University of Texas at Austin in 1884 , where he taught, among others, Robert Lee Moore and Leonard Dickson . When he publicly criticized the choice of a professor (preferred to the more capable RL Moore), he was fired in Austin. Halsted went to St. John's College in Annapolis , from 1903 to 1906 he was at Kenyon College in Gambier in Ohio and then until 1914 at the Colorado State College of Education in Greeley .
Halsted introduced non-Euclidean geometry to the USA through books and translations (by Henri Poincaré , Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri , János Bolyai , Nikolai Lobatschewski, among others ) . His elementary geometry textbook Rational Geometry (1904), based on David Hilbert's axioms , has been translated into German, French and Japanese.
He was vice president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .
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| SURNAME | Halsted, George Bruce |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 25, 1853 |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 16, 1922 |