Glenn James

Glenn James (born October 2, 1882 in Lincolnville , Wabash County , Indiana , † September 2, 1961 in Arroyo Grande , California ) was an American mathematician .

James, whose parents were both teachers, studied at Indiana University (Bachelor in 1905) and was then instructor in mathematics at Michigan Agricultural College and Purdue University . At the same time he made his master's degree from Indiana University in 1911 and his doctorate in 1917 from Columbia University ( Some Theorems on the Summation of Divergent Series ). He became an Assistant Professor at Purdue University and then was an Associate Professor at the Carnegie Institute of Technology . In 1922 he became an assistant professor and in 1925 an associate professor at the Southern Branch of the University of California at Los Angeles (later UCLA ). In 1949 he retired as a professor.

James saved Mathematics Magazine from being hired as editor. In 1959 it was adopted by the Mathematical Association of America . As a mathematician, he dealt with divergent series and later with the Fermat conjecture .

Like his parents, he was an active Quaker. With his son Robert C. James he wrote a mathematics lexicon (at the level of high school to intermediate diploma).

Fonts

• with Robert C. James: Mathematics Dictionary, 5th edition, Chapman and Hall 1992. The first edition (assisted by Robert James) appeared in 1942, the first edition by van Nostrand in 1949, later Edwin F. Beckenbach also played a major role in the publication involved
• as co-editor: The tree of Mathematics, Pacoima , California, Digest Press, 1957

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